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Originally Posted by elphenor
I'm not a historian
but prior to gunpowder I'm not sure they even knew there was a globe
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They knew about the old world. They knew about the Islamic world which for a time was much more powerful than they were. They knew about the Mongols who had the most expansive empire of all time. They knew about the Chinese who were also much richer and more powerful than the west not too long ago.