First Mediterranean: 22000 BC – 1000 BC.Fishermen are also de-emphasized, both because they typically return to their home port, and because they are mostly interested in what happens under the sea, not on the surface.Ībulafia divides Mediterranean history into five periods:
Empires that border the Mediterranean but did not develop a significant naval presence are de-emphasized, as are island societies that mostly look inwards. Mostly, it is a story of traders and navies. Neighboring seas like the Black Sea, the Red Sea, and the Atlantic between Portugal and Morocco are only occasionally mentioned. Geographically, this extends from the Straits of Gibraltar to the Bosporus. The Great Sea about the people who have traveled across the surface of the Mediterranean. Prerequisites: Basic Mediterranean history will be helpful for context. He mostly succeeds, which makes this a very impressive book. Abulafia has undertaken an extremely ambitious project: to write a summary of the entire history of the Mediterranean, from the first people to cross its waters all the way to today.
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