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What I love about this perspective is that one can imagine production plans based on catching the monsoon season. The Indian ocean is also no joke to sail through anytime much less monsoon season. This took sophisticated thought and cultural focus to pull off.

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More than that, it takes a very sophisticated and well-integrated society to no only make it possible, but affordable and profitable.

With the tech and scales of the times, it's mind-blowing and a testament to how badass humanity already was.

What could they have achieved with what we have today?

> With the tech and scales of the times, it's mind-blowing and a testament to how badass humanity already was.

At the scale of the Homo Sapiens Sapiens, Antiquity is yesterday. A good rule of thumb in History is that people were and will be exactly the same as we are.

And calendars, I am sure.-

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