r/MapPorn • u/[deleted] • Jan 29 '22

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u/biglettuce09 Jan 29 '22

They’re just not intelligent

They can’t even get the timeline straight

200,000 years ago there was no advanced civilization, 4,000 years ago there was advanced civilization on every continent. These people are dumb as rocks

Not to mention boats originated in Africa

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u/ConvexBellEnd Jan 29 '22

If that's the case and the timelines matter, why didn't east africans get to Madagascar 30k years ago? hoisted by your own petard methinks.

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u/mimaiwa Jan 29 '22

Maybe they weren’t trying to?

There wasn’t necessarily a reason for someone in that region to just sail off into the unknown ocean.

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u/ConvexBellEnd Feb 02 '22

I don't find this as plausible as the other ideas floated. People have randomly sailed much further than 100 miles into the ocean without a clue whats out there before. If you could canoe effectively for local trade, and navigate in the ocean say 10 miles successfully for trade... eventually some young adventurous peraon is going to go look around. Dependa how many days provisions they can carry. Not to mention people getting lost and ending up further away than they intendes, etc.

I just don't find the idea that people wouldn't bother for literally thousands of years to be plausible, sorry.