A history documentary on the Flat Earth Theory and how Flat Earthers were debunked over 2,000 years ago. Go to https://squarespace.com/Invicta to get a free trial and 10% off your first purchase. The video takes a look at what people in the past thought about the shape of the earth. Here is an outline of the major topics: 1. Early Flat Earth Models - What did people from our earliest civilizations like the Sumerians and Babylonians think of the shape of the earth and of cosmology. 2. Simple Observations of a Round Earth - An overview of common ways that common people could clue in to the real shape of the earth. 3. Greeks and a Round Earth - The successions of ancient Greek philosophers who debunked the flat earth model and built up consensus around the round earth view. 4. Details of a Round Earth - The brilliant experiment of Eratosthenes which used the angles of shadows to calculate the circumference of the earth. 5. The Round Earth Prevails - How the belief of the Round Earth came to be the commonly accepted view of the world 2000 years ago. Credits Research: Invicta Script: Invicta Art: Invicta Editing: Invicta Music: 8th Mode Music, Total War: Rome II OST #Science #History