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306: Columbus: The Adventure Begins (Part 1)

The Rest Is History

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Can You Cross the Atlantic?

If Eurasia is much bigger, then almost by definition, because people have a vague sense of how big the world is, that means the Atlantic must be smaller. So maybe it would just be if it's fewer days sail than you would expect to go to Japan and Columbus. To get a sponsor, he needs to convince the sponsor that it's going to be worth their while. If it's antipodes, who knows what might be there, you can't be sure. He absolutely needs state sponsorship. And so the question then becomes, yeah, which state?

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