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Dmitry_Shevchenko [17]
4 years ago
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Alfred Wegener believed that all of the continents were originally

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Mrrafil [7]4 years ago
4 0
He believed that they were originally one giant supercontinent.  He had the theory of pangea, which was that all the continents pieced together like a puzzle.
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