To: blam
It has long been known that Egypt, China, and India had -- BCE -- fleets of ocean-capable ships. India in particular built truly enormous ships that went nowhere except along the coasts. The mystery remains why none of these then- sea powers ever used them to cross the oceans to the New World. Seems that it took Evil White Homophobic Racist Sexist European Males to make that leap (but I'm certain all the real work was done by uncredited women and third-worlders...)
8 posted on
03/18/2005 12:45:20 PM PST by
pabianice
To: pabianice; blam
The mystery remains why none of these then- sea powers ever used them to cross the oceans to the New World.
Blam, you wanna take this one? ;')
10 posted on
03/19/2005 12:06:49 AM PST by
SunkenCiv
(last updated my FreeRepublic profile on Sunday, March 13, 2005.)
To: pabianice
Ancient seafaring history is always a "WOW" to me. Don't you wonder where they were able to go? Caligula's barge tells me they could have gone very far.
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