Maps from the 1400's show no Americas, because the known world had no Americas.
The Egypt thing that feed the whole world should read "the whole known world"...
Now, we're left with the question: Known to whom?
Why... the egyptians, of course!
At a time when boat travel was only available to a very select few, these would be the carriers of knowledge of the "known" world. And Egypt must always look good, so they were the ones feeding the entire known world... Egypt and a few more provinces around there...
So the book was written by people who had no idea what the world was like in its fullest... why am I not surprised?
The Egypt thing that feed the whole world should read "the whole known world"...
Now, we're left with the question: Known to whom?
Why... the egyptians, of course!
At a time when boat travel was only available to a very select few, these would be the carriers of knowledge of the "known" world. And Egypt must always look good, so they were the ones feeding the entire known world... Egypt and a few more provinces around there...
So the book was written by people who had no idea what the world was like in its fullest... why am I not surprised?
