maritime history - History - Ancient times

• • • maritime history - History - Ancient times - Prehistory
      • Picture of Indigenous Americans making a dugout canoe, a practice which they had done for centuries.
    • maritime history - History - Ancient times - Egypt
      • Picture of Egyptian ship, 1250 BC
    • maritime history - History - Ancient times - The Mediterranean
      • Minoan traders from Crete were active in the eastern Mediterranean by the 2nd millennium BC. The Phoenicians were an ancient civilization centered in the north of ancient Canaan, with its heartland along the coast of modern day Lebanon, Syria and northern Israel. ³ Phoenician civilization was an enterprising maritime trading culture that spread across the Mediterranean during the first millennium BC, between the period of 1200 BC to 900 BC. Though ancient boundaries of such city-centered cultures fluctuated, the city of Tyre seems to have been the southernmost. Sarepta between Sidon and Tyre, is the most thoroughly excavated city of the Phoenician homeland. The Phoenicians often traded by means of a galley, a man-powered sailing vessel. They were the first civilization to create the bireme. There is still debate on the subject of whether the Canaanites and Phoenicians were different peoples or not.
    • maritime history - History - Ancient times - Northern Europe
      • The Norsemen , or 'people from the North', were people from southern and central Scandinavia which established states and settlements Northern Europe from the late 8th century to the 11th century.
    • maritime history - History - Ancient times - Indian subcontinent
      • In the Indian maritime history, the world's first tidal dock was built in Lothal around 2500 BC during the Harappan civilisation at Lothal near the present day Mangrol harbour on the Gujarat coast. Other ports were probably at Balakot and Dwarka. However, it is probable that many small-scale ports, and not massive ports, were used for the Harappan maritime trade. ^Possehl Ships from the harbour at these ancient port cities established trade with Mesopotamia, ^(eg where the Indus Valley was known as Meluhha.
    • maritime history - History - Ancient times - Asia and the Far East
      • (Picture) Depiction of a rudder. Pottery model of a junk, 1st Century of the Common Era. Guangzhou National Museum (drawing).