13th, 14th century europeans knew the world was round. This map, which was not meant for matt meant for navigation shows you that this was the 13th Century Map of the world and you might not be able to make out the continents in the Countrys Year she can see that they saw the world is around. The question was not how the shape of the earth the question was whether you can make it around the earth. They knew theoretically that if you sailed west he would come to the east. How far that would be, what dangers they would encounter, none of that was known to them. None was known. While the portuguese worked their way down the southern coast towards the tip of africa, there were another group of people who are pushing off in a different direction onto the atlantic. These were the norse. The vikings as they are sometimes called. In the common image the vikings are seen as ferocious warriors, conquerors, leaders care looters. There is a prayer the monks offered to protect from the north men. S
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