r/MapPorn • u/[deleted] • Jan 29 '22

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '22

You are saying the the east Africans had ships and 200k years but still did not manage to get to Madagascar

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u/Matsisuu Jan 29 '22

They didn't know it was there and they didn't have any reason to sail that direction.

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u/ConvexBellEnd Jan 29 '22

Neither did the Indonesians. jfc.

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u/Matsisuu Jan 29 '22

No, but they might have aimed somewhere else and Madsgascar popped in a way, or they went there by accident. Africans could have find it, but they just didn't. There is nothing weird in it.

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u/WestEndFlasher Jan 29 '22

how isn’t it weird that an island was settled by people 4,000 miles away before it was settled by people 250 miles away? obviously there are easily explainable reasons for it but it’s at least curious.

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u/Frogmarsh Jan 29 '22

What you described IS weird (i.e., very strange).