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The ancient Greeks had worked out that the world was round by looking at the shadow that the Earth makes on the moon. Colombus knew it was round.
no the world has always been round. but it was believed that the earth was flat because pioneers never traveled far enough to know then some one was smart enough to realize the earth was round.
Round. Most people by the time of Columbus did not believe the Earth was flat, despite what some history books will tell you.
The Guptas discovered that the earth is round and that it spins on an axis.
No, the Gupta Empire did not discover that the Earth was round by observing lunar eclipses. The concept that the Earth is round was already known in ancient times by Greek scholars like Pythagoras and Aristotle, long before the Gupta period.
The Guptas discovered that the earth is round and that it spins on an axis.
That's for you to figure out.
The Ancient Greeks figured that out, but if you don't believe them find a photo from space of earth. It is round.
The Ancient Greeks figured that out, but if you don't believe them find a photo from space of earth. It is round.
Eratosthenes figured it out. I don't really know what you mean by this question, though.
Yes. Contrary to popular belief, by the time of Copernicus scholars knew Earth to be round.
Any early man that could use common sense would have figured that one out.
It was well before man explored that it was a known fact that the earth was round. The Ancient Greeks had that figured out thousands of years before the first ship hit the water.
Back in those times there was no president. However, there were kings and queens. Christopher Columbus figured the earth was round and asked queen isabell to help him. She agreed but she did not actually SEND him. He wanted to find out if the earth was round and she said that he could try.
I don't have a complete answer, but they proposed that the Earth was round. They also figured out gravity and the positions of the stars. They also made the basic chess game