The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World (2 page)
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Authors: Lincoln Paine
Tags: #History, #Military, #Naval, #Oceania, #Transportation, #Ships & Shipbuilding
Pre-Columbian North and Central America
The shaded area indicates the range of the paper birch (
Betula papyrifera
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Ancient Egypt
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From Mesopotamia to the Indus Valley
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The Bronze Age Near East
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The Classical Mediterranean
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The Muslim Indian Ocean
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East and Southeast Asia
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The Medieval Mediterranean
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Europe Through the Viking Age
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Late Medieval Europe
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The Monsoon Seas
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Asia and the Pacific in the Early Modern Period
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The Atlantic World
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