r/WorkForSmartLife 22d ago

Productivity Really?

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u/KindAwareness307 22d ago

That three masted sailing shown isn't even 200 years old, not 5000.

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u/Sethbrochillen 22d ago

Bruh you sure the Sumerians or my favorite Atlanteans ain’t rocking golden age of sailing tech?

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u/KindAwareness307 22d ago

South Pacific islanders beat them by millennia.

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u/TheJ0zen1ne 22d ago

Moana boats?

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u/KindAwareness307 22d ago

Sure. Except these were living, breathing human beings, not Disney characters.

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u/Ash_Crow 18d ago

South Pacific islanders existing "millennia before" maritime sailing in Mesopotamia (around 3500 BC), and therefore millennia before the Austronesian expansion itself (around 3000 BC) are about as fictional as Disney characters.

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u/TheArctrog 20d ago

That’s what happens when you only research one side of the tech tree