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The World According to the 1580s
- ferros 8y agoIn 500 years, somewhere, there will be an article like this about how people pictured space in 2019, and how off the mark they were.
- mirimir 8y agoDamn. I wonder whether all those details from so much of North America implies that Europeans visited all those places. And left their diseases. Or maybe they relied a lot on native informants. But that was also a disease pathway. This does support the hypothesis of mass die-offs before substantive visits. As discussed in Mann’s 1491.
- wallace_f 8y agoI've seen a lot of different hypotheses arguing settlers reached Americas earlier and more-often than has been recorded. A couple days ago some were talking about one idea, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19674298 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19674298
- kevinios 8y agoUnrelated (sorry), but here’s what I see when I open that Medium link in Safari. It’s quite a challenge to find the article between the pop-ups. Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/XbYLs5c.png https://i.imgur.com/XbYLs5c.png But they haven’t improved that in years, so I suspect it must actually be working for them and convert well!