• Pyr@lemmy.ca
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    42 minutes ago

    How do they determine the beginning of a river? Should it be the furthest point of something? Why isn’t the Missouri River the “Mississippi” and the remaining portion of the Mississippi north of that junction the Missouri instead?

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    6 hours ago

    You know, I was watching a video theorizing that the Odyssey and the Iliad were assembled from a bunch of older stories, and that a couple of those journeys went across the Atlantic. If someone like the ancient Macedonians made it across, the Old Testament stories could also be incorporating information about North America.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldOP
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      3 hours ago

      the Odyssey and the Iliad were assembled from a bunch of older stories

      Very possible

      and that a couple of those journeys went across the Atlantic

      Total bullshit

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        Probably, but not as insane as you might first think. We already know the Vikings managed it, and in the Pacific, many islands were populated by people who didn’t have anywhere near the ships that the Mediterranean civilizations had, and yet covered distances just as far as you would have to cross if you were taking the northern route across the Atlantic.