Answer: The Spanish said the rafts were in the shape of the extended fingers of a hand. The large balsa logs, lashed together with henequen fiber, formed the main deck of a raft. Seawater passed freely between and over the logs making it very difficult for rafts to be swamped by heavy seas.
You're right! Plato C. thought philosopher-kings should run the government.
In Plato's Republic, Plato argues that the ideal rule is by a philosopher-king who has stepped outside the cave, seen the light and come back to with this understanding to the cave to rule (see Cave metaphor).