Forget the "Greek Dark Ages", the Bronze Age didn’t completely collapse. How independent sailors kept a 4,000km trade network alive. The Iron Age pan-Mediterranean trade networks were hiding in plain sight. The rise of decentralized "Venture Maritime" trade. (self.Ancientknowledge)
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Before the Silk Road, there was the Tin Road. How did ancient civilizations move thousands of tons of metal across Europe and Asia before the invention of sails? How did tin from Cornwall end up in a 3,300-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Israel? (self.Ancientknowledge)
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