How did the ancients successfully identify North South East and West?
How did the ancients successfully identify North South East and West?
And why did they decide that North is up and South is down?
Remember, they had no idea that the world is round or that there is a North and South Pole.
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Seeing as Ancient Greeks knew the world was round, I think your memory may be imperfect on that point. Eratosthenes calculated the Earth to be a globe with a circumference equivalent to about 46,000km. That's about 6,000 too many, but not far off.
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