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[–] 13 points 2 years ago

Let me tell you about the Persian gulf and the South China Sea.

When the gulf was named by European explorers in the 1580s, Mexico (as a region colonized by Spain) was the most important thing in the main land. Some Spanish maps from the same time period also called it Gulf of New Spain.

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