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If the explorers wouldn’t have followed their maps they would have gotten lost. Another thing that might of happened is maybe they would find someplace cool but they have no idea where they are. Without a map most captains would have probably been going in circles for years. Imagine if you didn’t have a map, you probably would have thought you were going to fall of the side of the earth, because back then the explores thought the earth was flat.
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