> - Flat Earth To add on to what the sibling poster said, the Earth was widely accepted as round by at least some cultures by at least 500 BC, due to overwhelm

> - Flat Earth To add on to what the sibling poster said, the Earth was widely accepted as round by at least some cultures by at least 500 BC, due to overwhelming and easily observable natural evidence that the Earth was round. - The shape of the Earth's shadow on the Moon is a circle. - The further you travel south, the more the stars change, 'rising' before you and 'setting' behind you. - When ships sail away, the bottom of the ship disappears first over the horizon, leaving the sails still visible. The same is true for mountains. There were certainly some ancient peoples who imagined a flat earth (or a flat disc-shaped earth), but the idea of a round Earth is very old and most probably predates the Greek philosophers.