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Of course they did. For some reason in today's popular culture, we have this strange idea that the common knowledge that the Earth was round, only came to be af
by wtdata 7y ago
Of course they did. For some reason in today's popular culture, we have this strange idea that the common knowledge that the Earth was round, only came to be after the 16th century.
That's totally wrong, common people knew the Earth was round for 2 millennia in the old world.
In the new world, surely the Maia knew it as well given their extremely advanced astronomical knowledge for the time. Incan astronomy, although not as advanced, was still quite sophisticated, they surely understood moon ecplipses well enough to get that the Earth was round.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_Earth https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_Earth