476 index
broccoli, 33
Bronze Age, 50, 52, 205, 207, 288
complex societies in, 442–443
crisis of, 22, 54–55, 213
Bursa, 93
Byzantium
and Mediterranean, 80–83
and Turks, 452
and Venice, 143
and western traders, 209
cabbage, 33
cabotage, 417
literary, 316
Cappadocia, 222, 224, 225, 226, 229
Cappella Palatina, Palermo, 302–304,
306–307
caravel, 166
carrack, 164
Carthage, 55, 56, 67–68, 79, 142–144, 149,
151, 177, 413, 429
cartography, see maps of the Mediterranean
catchment analysis, 203
Cavafy, Constantine, 347
caves
religious houses in, 228
shrines in, 221
caves, living in
decline of, 230–232
digging techniques, 221
domestic spaces, 227–228
economy of, 228–230
as form of civilization, 221
as form of defense, 225
geography of, 224
Jewish communities, 224
medieval, 221–223
patterns of settlement, 223–224
in prehistory, 219
reasons for, 222–223, 225
water supply, 225–226
central place theory, 206
Cervantes, Miguel de, 323, 420
Charles V, Emperor, 420
chestnuts, 35
China, economy of, 449
Christianity in the Mediterranean
early history, 364
and Islam, 80–86, 126, 175
conflict and co-existence, 361–363, 375,
378, 388–389
Chronicle of Morea, 322
cities
consumer/producer, 208
food supply of, 95, 97, 207, 213
medieval, functions of, 209
in middle Niger basin, 430
spacing of, 206
climate, Mediterranean, 11–14, 28
atmospheric systems, 12, 20
fluctuations in early prehistory, 46
historical effects, 20–22, 27–28
Holocene fluctuations, 14–16
see also Little Ice Age; paleoclimatology;
Sahara
coffee, 99
cog/cocha, 164–166
colonies
ancient, 72, 149
Caribbean, 99
medieval, 86
Columbian Exchange, 31
Comacchio, 70
complexity, social, 212
connectivity, 304–305, 307, 308, 320–321,
372, 444, 458–459
contracts, commercial, 87–88
conversos, 403
convivencia, 78, 317–318
Copper Age, 50, 52
core-periphery interactions, 211–212
corruption, see patronage
corsairs
Barbary, 141, 178, 419
and lingua franca, 333, 337
number of victims, 274
and slavery, 272
and trade, 142
Cosmas Indicopleustes, 185, 460
cosmopolitanism, 115–117, 347, 385
craft production, commercialized, 126–130,
291
Crete, 100, 140
Bronze Age, 347
medieval, 353–354
Crusader States
art of, 305–306
religious communities in, 369
Crusades, 81–82, 84
art of, 305–306
logistics of, 162
template for modern hostilities, 126