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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Windchild, post: 1715391, member: 44189&quot;]Many knowledgeable people knew, but wouldn&#039;t tell the normal person</p><p><br /></p><p>This was because they could be hung for treason if the church learned that they thought the world was round.</p><p><br /></p><p>So the truth is, it depends on who you were if you thought the world was flat or round.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a great example of them teaching stuff that is wrong:</p><p><br /></p><p>Romans were civilized, and the Carthaginians were treacherous, uncivilized, untrustworthy and had no morals.</p><p><br /></p><p>The opposite was normally true.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>He was a Greek from Cyrene.</p><p><br /></p><p>He lived from the early-mid 3rd century BC to early 2nd century BC</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>He was a librarian at the Great University of Alexandria.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>His name was Eratosthenes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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