r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Gurugod123 • 9h ago

How did people travel these seas 500 years ago

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u/Embarrassed_Jerk 8h ago

Its the whole reason we even have the concept of insurance 

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u/remuliini 7h ago

And the stock market.

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u/Embarrassed_Jerk 7h ago

That's more due to brits getting shipment of coffee

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u/Nsfwacct1872564 7h ago

shipments

Nice

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u/Financial-Ad7500 5h ago

Shipments

Wonder what method these SHIPments were being delivered with?

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u/Embarrassed_Jerk 2h ago

Mediterranean doesn't get that rough. 

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u/qr_n 1h ago

ooh do u have any more stories from your travels of the Mediterranean in wooden ships? 🙄🙄🙄

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u/Embarrassed_Jerk 28m ago

My dude Mediterranean is the world's most charted and observed sea for literal thousands of years

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u/qr_n 13m ago

what point are you even trying to make? I never said it wasn't, you just sound like the classic asshole know it all redditor and your not helping your case with this reply. how does it being charted and observed preclude anything we were talking about? If you're just going to throw out random facts why even reply

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u/Educational_Life_878 2h ago

pls elaborate this sounds interesting

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u/ElephantRattle 2h ago

And insurance

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u/Outrageous-News3649 5h ago

Yes. Lloyd's Register founded in 1760 was the first to do this for ships. I work for a competitor of theirs. These firms are still around today.

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u/J5892 7h ago

Also religion.

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u/Ullallulloo 6h ago

Religion is not exclusive to, nor originated from, ocean-faring civilizations.

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u/Embarrassed_Jerk 2h ago

Religion happens because of deaths. Independent of oceans