It means our sea in Latin.
After Alexander death, Egypt was ruled by : B. Ptolemy
He was a famous philosopher, mathematician , and astronomer from Egypt. During Alexander era, Ptolemy was the Great General of Macedonian army
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Because the northwest passage represents centuries of effort to find a route westward from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to the Arctic Archipelago of what is now Canada. Europeans searched for 300 years to find a viable SEA TRADE-ROUTE to Asia. If they were to find it, it would have been easier to travel through seas, and land in the past.
