/SQT/ – Stupid Question Thread

I'm confused about the climate of Ancient Egypt.
It wasn't a desert then but didn't have alot of trees so was it just grassland?

>>3273932
swamp maybe

>>3273957
But you can't grow crops in swamplands. Some parts probably were (the Nile Delta) but for the most part is can't be.

I'm pretty confused by Ovid's creation.

> [ divided the world in five zones ]
> Of which that in the middle, is not habitable from the heat,
> deep snow covers two, as many between both he placed
> and he gave them a temperate climate mixing heat with cold.

Apart from the fact I didn't knew the Greeks thought the eart was a globe; they couldn't possible know about the existence of the South and North pole, more generally the circles of latitude, or did they ?

>>3274013
I said Greeks, but I meant Roman*

Was Chinese culture/mythology changed at all by the supernova they witnessed in 1054?

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Was John Dewey the worst thing to happen to western education?