What factors caused the Greeks to be known as reliable navigators

At any one time in the year at any one point on the globe, the sun and stars are found above the horizon at certain fixed heights at a distance that mariners can measure with as simple an instrument as one's fingers, laid horizontally atop one another and held at arm's length.

states

explanation:

as the old saying goes, all politics are local. state and federal governments affect our daily lives in numerous ways. yet, in our federal system, there is supposed to be a balance between federal and state power. as james madison envisioned it in federalist no. 51, “the power surrendered by the people” would be “divided between two distinct governments,” creating a balance of power that would enable the “different governments [to] control each other.”

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