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> I find it endlessly fascinating how interconnected the ancient worlds really were.

And it's amazing to me how much work we need to do to understand the past. Though it seems like not all past cultures had it so difficult - those with e.g. strong oral traditions. Some Australian Aboriginal oral traditions recount accurately geographic features from thousands of years before.



The hard part isn't the recounting, it's distinguishing recount from improv.




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