A Companion to Mediterranean History

A Companion to Mediterranean History, First Edition. Edited by Peregrine Horden and Sharon Kinoshita. © 2014 John Wiley & So ...

426 ray a. kea long duration it was a system of transformations. Its defining elements include dis- tinctive lithic technologies ...

the mediterranean and africa 427 Fazzan probably exceeded 100 000. High population and settlement density was due to the mainten ...

428 ray a. kea Evidence of the commercialization and monetization of the Garamantian economy can be clearly seen in the circulat ...

the mediterranean and africa 429 these phenomena congruent with relationships and events in and around the Mediterranean basin o ...

430 ray a. kea In 666–667, an Islamic force from the Rashidun caliphate invaded the Fazzan, bringing about the collapse of the G ...

the mediterranean and africa 431 second, a commercial-craft center occupied by merchants and artisans, by a few kilometers. It e ...

432 ray a. kea interconnections extended northwards to Saharan centers and to Mediterranean Africa, eastwards to the Egyptian an ...

the mediterranean and africa 433 the late-thirteenth century. Marble tombstones (dated between 1100 and 1120) imported from al-A ...

434 ray a. kea different social strata. Noble and warrior families presumably appropriated surpluses from various production act ...

the mediterranean and africa 435 Niger Delta. The cultural space of Kharijite knowledge production and frames of communication, ...

436 ray a. kea al-Idrisi (writing c. 1154) refers to “flourishing towns and famous strongholds” and describes the inhabitants as ...

the mediterranean and africa 437 ecclesiastical documents, legal and diplomatic texts, royal proclamations, property inventories ...

438 ray a. kea Moses George (c. 1155–c. 1190), left his throne in search of a pious or monastic retirement. Can this be identifi ...

the mediterranean and afriCa 439 the sixth Nile cataract, 1000 kilometers to the south, and extended several hundred kilometers ...

440 ray a. kea Based on original Arabic-language sources, this stimulating work bridges the historiographical divide between nor ...

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442 nicholas doumanis This chapter appraises the ways in which the Mediterranean world was configured by these “Asias,” although ...

the mediterranean and asia 443 resources. Social complexity, in other words, was the product of a regional dynamic that expanded ...

444 nicholas doumanis land. The westward expansion of social complexity was slow, however. Urban centers certainly did emerge in ...