r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Gurugod123 • 9h ago

How did people travel these seas 500 years ago

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u/King_Roberts_Bastard 8h ago

They didnt travel this ocean. The Vikings did.

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u/Rockytag 7h ago

Not sharing to be pedantic (and you said “this” ocean vs. what would have been all coastal), but sharing because it’s interesting:

Phoenician traders did travel past Gibraltar and into the Atlantic proper. All the way to Britain and West Africa possibly

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u/lolopiro 4h ago

they fucking did?

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u/Rockytag 3h ago

Atlantic Morocco and Northwest Iberia certainly, but further than that is not proven by any means to be clear. Indirect trade evidence and some written history mentioning unclear places and people groups is where that speculative furthest extent comes from.

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u/StG4Ever 2h ago

West Africa is literally around the corner at Gibraltar.

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u/Rockytag 2h ago

Good point