Seafaring and Seafarers
Author | : Arthur Bernard Knapp |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2018 |
ISBN-10 | : 9088905568 |
ISBN-13 | : 9789088905568 |
Rating | : 4/5 (568 Downloads) |
Download or read book Seafaring and Seafarers written by Arthur Bernard Knapp and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seafaring is a mode of travel, a way to traverse maritime space that enables not only the transport of goods and materials but also of people and ideas - communicating and sharing knowledge across the sea and between different lands. Seagoing ships under sail were operating between the Levant, Egypt, Cyprus and Anatolia by the mid-third millennium BC and within the Aegean by the end of that millennium. By the Late Bronze Age (after ca. 1700/1600 BC), seaborne trade in the eastern Mediterranean made the region an economic epicentre, one in which there was no place for Aegean, Canaanite or Egypt.