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Geschichte des ostindischen Handels vor Mohämmed
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Year: 1775 Publisher: Gotha Bei Carl Wilhelm Ettinger

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Mediterranean encounters, economic, religious, political, 1100-1550
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ISBN: 0860788415 Year: 2000 Volume: 694 Publisher: Burlington, VT Ashgate

Archaeological perspectives on the transmission and transformation of culture in the Eastern Mediterranean
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ISBN: 1842171682 9781842171684 1739730232 Year: 2022 Volume: 2 Publisher: Oxford : Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL),

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The eastern Mediterranean was the centre of trade for many centuries, sitting at the junction of what are now Europe, Asia and Africa. It was the place where exotic produce and products could be traded or exchanged for things that had their origins perhaps thousands of miles away. But wherever trade takes place, a similar exchange of ideas, technology and culture also occurs. This book presents thirty papers on this very subject, looking at the ways in which we can measure the transmission of culture, and how this transmission varied across time and space.


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Tilling the hateful earth : agricultural production and trade in the late antique east
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ISBN: 9780199565283 0199565287 0191721727 Year: 2009 Publisher: Oxford [etc.] Oxford University Press

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This book explores the agrarian landscape and economy of the eastern Mediterranean from modern Israel to Turkey. This region experienced a surge in population between the fifth and sixth centuries AD that raised the population to levels often only regained in the late twentieth century. Cities expanded and the eastern lands reached a pinnacle of cultural expression and economic prosperity in the century before the arrival of Islam. Behind all this lay the ability of Roman farmers to feed themselves by producing a reliable surplus of food. Michael Decker describes precisely how this was done: how plants critical to survival were grown and how new plants were introduced. He also catalogues the range of intensive farming methods used and the rise of cash-crop farming based on olive oil and wine that was traded throughout Europe, western Asia, and parts of Africa.

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