To: Perseverando
What blocked going East?Land. It's hard to sail over land.
6 posted on
08/07/2019 12:13:06 PM PDT by
al_c
(Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
To: al_c
Vasco Da Gama went East to India. It was generally believed by those seriously contemplating such things that going East around Africa was a longer route than going west straight across the ocean to Cathay. Alas, Cathay turned out to be New Jersey.
16 posted on
08/07/2019 12:31:19 PM PDT by
arthurus
(ghsj,,,/)
To: al_c
hauling boats over stretches of land was a thing even back when
wouldn’t have been an impossible task to drag it into the Red Sea
17 posted on
08/07/2019 12:32:16 PM PDT by
thoughtomator
(... this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.)
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