• whoisearth@lemmy.ca
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    4 hours ago

    True but in parts of the world completely isolated from others? India in comparison to South America as an example.

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      3 hours ago

      Especially then. How would the ancients in India know that South America even exists? It floods in India, story develops. It floods 300 years later in South America, story develops. For all they knew, it was the whole world that flooded. They could not check back, whether it flooded on different continents.