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[muawiyah]

Some time about 900 AD the Viking people met the Sa'ami.

The Sa'ami had several useful inventions that made them popular with the Vikings. First, there was this powdered reindeer urine high in the alkaloids found in Amanita Muscaria.

Then there were skis, and Norwegian rat trap bindings for those skis, as well as improved snowshoes.

Best of all the Sa'ami had come up with a boathull design for use in the Northern rivers and the nearshore Arctic Ocean.

That design, scaled up, could ply North Atlantic and Baltic seas with ease.

I suspect that it was the availability of a dramatically superior boat design that stimulated European fishermen (Takala) to take to the ocean to catch fish.

[ckilmer]

In recent years, Ports on the red sea have been found that brought indian spices to rome. Piers dating to dating to a couple centuries before christ have been found on the southern coast of england.

I go for the theory that coastal sailing has been around for 10’s of thousands of years. I don’t know if people fished when they were on the open ocean.