Nobody thought that.
They thought people had always existed.
i think it is the peasants like in Egypt's social classes.
Always? No. Some people thought the Earth was a disk held up by four elephants on the back of a giant turtle (a motiv adpoted by a popular science-fiction/fantasy series). Aristarchos of Samos published the first heliocentric model, but it was centuries before the so-called Copernican theory was generally accepted.
because people are littering, using aerosol sprays, and using styrofoam products which the earth will never break down. not even 20 generations from now. -Rory, Florida
How are you not able to do this on your own? I mean, seriously, just think of the first two words that come to your mind when you think of ancient Egypt. How about: advanced; cryptic.
Because they were barbaric and beleived earth was special :}
The Geocentric model
... because they thought they were the most important in the universe and the only things in the universe so they thought they were in they centre.
Fossils affect how people think about ancient creatures of Earth. The fossils show animals that people did not previously know existed.
If you are referring to Faust then i think Hell was in the centre of the earth.
it is earth
This had been known since the ancient Greeks. It is a fable that people didn't know this. Despite the fact we have seen earth from space there are people who think the earth is flat.
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they thought that the earth was flat and that you could swim right off the edge!
Everyone thought that the sun orbits the Earth and all other planets but Copernicus studied the ski carefully. He found out that the Earth and all other Planets orbits the sun and the earth is not the centre of the universe. The sun is.
Nicolaus Copernicus was polish He was astronomer and mathematician who discovered that the earth was not the centre of the universe, but rather the sun was I think that makes him pretty important
Journey to the Center of the Earth. I think.