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SketchySeaBeast 4 days ago

> Until just a few centuries ago most of the world population was split between Europe (West) and East Asia (East).

What about Africa? North and South America?

> Plenty of people genuinely believed that if you were to navigate to the West of Europe you would fall off the border of the world (well, some still do).

Did they? Who in particular are you referencing here? Are you perhaps falling for the myth of the flat earth[1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth