A Companion to Mediterranean History
thalassoCraCies 145 maritime, Peloponnesian cities is taken into account; and in any case necessity made quick learners out of t ...
146 david abulafia in areas evacuated by the Muslims, but this was by no means the aim of the expedi- tion; Sicily was conquered ...
thalassoCraCies 147 more grandiose wars, but furthering trade was a means to that end rather than an end in itself; and if, as M ...
148 david abulafia instance, he reflects on the survival of a lost Latin-based language in North Africa until the central Middle ...
thalassoCraCies 149 Infrastructures The first piece of infrastructure was, of course, a port, though this could vary from a simp ...
150 david abulafia empire as the rice paddies of Valencia or the almond groves of Majorca. The fonduk retained its importance, a ...
thalassoCraCies 151 impression of having dusted off and studied old Norman Sicilian plans to invade the area. Just as Roger had ...
152 david abulafia Mediterranean are not part of larger states, though half of one is under Turkish protection. But before the m ...
thalassoCraCies 153 Crawley, R. (trans.) (1874) The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, London: Longmans, Green. Cri ...
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nautical technology 155 Atlantic and Mediterranean networks met at Valencina de la Concepción (at that time close to the mouth o ...
156 ruthy gertwagen illuminate several important aspects of their seafaring. In the eastern Mediterranean, a convoy of three tub ...
nautical technology 157 Roman period and later. The building process was prolonged and expensive: it required a highly- professi ...
158 ruthy gertwagen small square spritsail forward of the prow. This is the artemon, whose main function was to help steer the s ...
nautical technology 159 shell structure. About the turn of the sixth century ce, wrecks found in Dor Lagoon along the Israeli co ...
160 ruthy gertwagen 2003: 215–216; Harpster, 2010: 52). Furthermore, there is ample evidence in the first half of the fifteenth ...
nautical technology 161 military, due to the revival of the economy that led to intensification of seafaring. Iconography depict ...
162 ruthy gertwagen known as the uscerius/uxerius (from the Arabic ‘ushārı̄) and, by the thirteenth century, under the name tar ...
nautical technology 163 obstacle was removed with the introduction in the late thirteenth century of the compass, the marine cha ...
164 ruthy gertwagen ships used “frame-based” Mediterranean technology. The cog’s features were not simultaneously adopted in the ...
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