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Marco Polo, Islamic jihad, & the REAL reason Columbus sailed West
American Minute ^
| October 10, 2019
| Bill Federer
Posted on 12/12/2019 10:58:25 AM PST by Perseverando
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Time for another great American history lesson from American Minute.
To: Perseverando
Seafarers of the time, captains and navigators, always knew the world was round, they kept it to themselves. Their instruments were predicated on a round Earth............... 🤔
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posted on
12/12/2019 11:07:10 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
To: Red Badger
They also knew there was a large land mass in the north and that’s why he took the southern route to try to go “under” that to the east.
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posted on
12/12/2019 11:09:58 AM PST
by
Grimmy
(equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
To: Perseverando
ABSOLUTELY! GREAT post. Thanks. HOORAY Bill Federer! BUMP!
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posted on
12/12/2019 11:12:12 AM PST
by
PGalt
(Past Peak Civilization? Remember the Alamo! Remember the republic?)
To: Grimmy
Yes, they knew the latitude of the places they wanted to get to so it was inevitable they would do that.
Columbus had no idea how big the Earth was. But a Greek mathematician a millenia earlier had come pretty close to the actual circumference.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes
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posted on
12/12/2019 11:14:20 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
To: Perseverando
Well the Vikings has a settlement in Greenland from about 900 to 1360 or so. when they stopped getting stuff from them they sent Eric the red to find out what happened to them. The several viking ships ended up going down Hudson Bay into the Great Lakes, and ended up losing 6 to the Black Death or maybe Indians. they left a Rune Stone behind dated in 1362. There were several Viking settlements in the USS long before Columbus.
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posted on
12/12/2019 11:15:01 AM PST
by
stubernx98
(cranky, but reasonable)
To: stubernx98
There is some evidence that Basque fishermen following the cod runs, went to Newfoundland & Labrador. They also could have introduced disease.
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posted on
12/12/2019 11:17:55 AM PST
by
Reily
To: Perseverando
I’m sure they are still teaching this in public schools../s?
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posted on
12/12/2019 11:24:43 AM PST
by
Leep
(It's.. (W)all or nothing..!)
To: Red Badger
They knew the earth was round because they could observe ships leaving port and see less and less of the mast until it finally disappeared into the horizon. They could also observe that the moon and sun are round. I don’t believe that there was a widespread belief that the earth was flat.
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posted on
12/12/2019 11:27:39 AM PST
by
youngidiot
(God save the President!)
To: youngidiot
I dont believe that there was a widespread belief that the earth was flat. Only among uneducated landlubbers, and religious extremists. The reason there was a lookout in the 'crows nest' was so they could see a ship's mast coming over the horizon sooner than someone on the deck......................
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posted on
12/12/2019 11:30:17 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
To: Perseverando
The Journeyer by Gary Jennings is an excellent read about the travels of Marco Polo.
To: Perseverando
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posted on
12/12/2019 12:23:53 PM PST
by
sauropod
(Chick Fil-A: Their spines turned out to be as boneless as their chicken patties.)
To: Perseverando
The battle of Curzola in 1298 was the largest naval battle ever fought between Venice and Genoa. Curzola is the Italian name for the island of Korcula off the Dalmatian coast (modern Croatia). The city of Korcula claims to be the birthplace of Marco Polo but that is incorrect—he was born in Venice. There is a local family named DePolo in Korcula but they did not settle in Korcula until many years later.
To: youngidiot
The ancient Greeks (and others) knew that the earth is round. Eratosthenes of Cyrene, about 200 B.C., calculated the circumference of the earth fairly accurately (far closer to the right figure than Columbus was).
To: stubernx98
It wasn't Eric the red, but the rest of that is a nice summation of Hjalmar Holand's take on the Kensington Rune Stone.
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posted on
12/14/2019 11:43:55 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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posted on
12/14/2019 11:45:50 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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