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> You can walk around the globe in 10-20 years. This is an important footnote that many historians seem to overlook. However a similar argument makes the seab
by singularity2001 10y ago
> You can walk around the globe in 10-20 years.
This is an important footnote that many historians seem to overlook.
However a similar argument makes the seaborne theory plausible too, as it took less than three years to sail or row around the globe, probably ever since the invention of the sailboat (~4000BC?).
- PieterH 10y agoYes, navigable water has always been the crucible of trade. Hence the economy and culture of the Mediterranean even from the early bronze age. And coastal trade is compelling, you don't need sea-faring ships, just dinghies capable of sailing to the next beach. So we can, reasonably, argue that there was a global human economy and civilisation (albeit one that operated really slowly) as early as 5,000 BCE (date that Wikipedia quotes for earliest depiction of a sailboat).