A Companion to Mediterranean History

the mediterranean and asia 445 Persia and the imperial state tradition William and John R. McNeill have isolated three principal ...

446 nicholas doumanis the cultural effect of Persian intervention was to make the Greeks less parochial, much as the Hellenistic ...

the mediterranean and asia 447 Empire. Perhaps this has to do with the region’s long history of urbanization and connectedness, ...

448 nicholas doumanis The fact that societies and communities across much of Asia, Europe and North Africa had always formed par ...

the mediterranean and asia 449 China and India unquestionably occupy the most important places within the Old World’s system or ...

450 nicholas doumanis ample wood supplies, improvements in financial and commercial contracting, and the clearance of privateers ...

the mediterranean and asia 451 the flow of goods westwards, and was usually as concerned as the Romans in main- taining the flow ...

452 nicholas doumanis The Asian pastoralists responsible for the greatest alteration in Mediterranean life and culture came from ...

the mediterranean and asia 453 quickly by inventing institutions that maximized their capacity to mobilize resources, by masteri ...

454 nicholas doumanis References Aubet, M.E. (2001. The Phoenicians and the West: Politics, Colonies and Trade, 2nd edn, Cambrid ...

the mediterranean and asia 455 Faroqhi, S. (1994) Crisis and change, 1590–1699, in An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman ...

456 nicholas doumanis Wiesehofer, J. (2010) The Achaemenid empire, in The Dynamics of Ancient Empires: State Power from Assyria ...

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458 elizabeth ann pollard of this conundrum—that is, thalassology as a challenge to, but product of, imperial ideologies—for a s ...

the mediterranean and the indian ocean 459 the  indirect linking of the Mediterranean with the Indian Ocean (Gills and Frank, 19 ...

460 elizabeth ann pollard Among the earliest Mediterranean-based accounts of India are fragments (c. 300 bce) by Megasthenes, He ...

the mediterranean and the indian ocean 461 fourth-century ce original, offers a map stretching from Britain to India and assigns ...

462 elizabeth ann pollard varying degrees. While there are intermittent early attempts by various Mediterranean- based imperial ...

the mediterranean and the indian ocean 463 Carol A. Redmount suggests a compromise position, that a canal linking the Red Sea (a ...

464 elizabeth ann pollard this naval power. Given Ptolemy II Philadelphus’s already-mentioned interest in the canal linking the ...