Mediterranean

Mediterranean Books

• Salt: A World History Mark Kurlansky Penguin (Non-Classics) (28 January 2003) Price: $10.40

• The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy... Adrienne Mayor Princeton University Press (28 September 2009) Price: $19.77

• The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality Cheikh Anta Diop Lawrence Hill Books (01 July 1989) Price: $11.53

• Europe Between the Oceans: 9000 BC-AD 1000 Prof. Barry Cunliffe Yale University Press (02 September 2008) Price: $29.70

• Noah's Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries About The Event That Changed History... William Ryan Simon & Schuster (25 January 2000) Price: $10.88

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• Pirates of the Mediterranean

  As soon as sea faring vessels made their way through the waters of the Mediterranean on newly established routes for trade and travel, the wealth and prosperity of ancient civilizations such as the Greeks, Egyptians, and Phoenicians began to blossom. With valuable goods, especially precious metals, being traded back and forth between kingdoms on a regular basis, the high seas were fertile grounds for pirates looking for control of these powerful trade routes.
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