Gnarley Boot on Nostr: White people (the Vikings and Phoenecians) first pioneered navigating the oceans ...

White people (the Vikings and Phoenecians) first pioneered navigating the oceans (using the stars and that is how the first computer was built, clock gears to calculate star positions) but knowledge of the tides and how to predict them was another matter. Secret knowledge passed on that why seafaring only got an uptike in colonial times.