Re: 7 Days

"Emma Pease" <emma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Less intelligent, no, but, they didn't have the opportunity to stand
on the shoulders of the people who had figured out the world wasn't
flat

People in ancient times did not beleive the world was flat.
That came much later.

Check out the ancient civilisations who had complex astronomical systems for
prediciting the seasons.
.

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