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Not The Earth Was Flat Thing Again!
Forum List | Follow Ups | Post Message | Back to Thread Topics | In Response To Posted by Rich on January 30, 2001 02:35:51 UTC |
I already went into this. They didn't think the Earth was flat. Rather the Portugese thought, correctly that the Earth was too large to sail the other way to the Indies. If the Americas weren't their, the voyage of Columbus would have failed.
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