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tok.wikipedia.org/wiki/tomo_tawa#tomo_tawa_lon_kon
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Claim
tenpo pini la tomo tawa lon telo li kepeken kon taso.
Correction
This is incorrect: boats in the past were not powered only by wind; many were rowed or paddled with oars.
Full reasoning
The sentence says past watercraft used only wind, but museum sources describing ancient boats show that many were propelled by oars or paddles.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art describes an Egyptian Model Paddling Boat being "paddled northward ... against the prevailing wind by sixteen men." That is direct evidence of a historical boat moved by human paddling, not wind alone.
- The British Museum describes an ancient ship "propelled by oars," again contradicting the idea that earlier water transport relied only on wind.
So the absolute word "taso" (only) makes the statement false.
2 sources
- Model Paddling Boat - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The basic idea of the trip is maintained by the presence of two boats: this one that is being paddled northward from Thebes to Abydos against the prevailing wind by sixteen men, and another that is just setting out on the return trip under sail.
- stamnos | British Museum
In this the ship moves to left, propelled by oars, of which six are seen on the port side.