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005 - Meanwhile, In Egypt...
In this episode we'll focus mainly on the predynastic depictions of papyrus boats, wooden boats, the earliest depictions of the sail, and one important...
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004 - Mesopotamian Merchants
In this episode we'll get to meet two of the more well known merchants from Mesopotamia: Ea-nāşir who lived during the time of the...
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003 - Sargon to Hammurabi: Trade and Turmoil in Ancient Mesopotamia
Although this episode will cover a greater span of time than the first two episodes covered, we'll still slow down and see how a...
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002 - Surplus Food, Big Buildings, and Power Hungry Lugals
We'll witness the expansion of Sumer from a scattered farming society into the world's first true civilization and see how society became less egalitarian...
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001 - Boating with the Ubaid People
In which we meet the Ubaid people and see how they became the first inhabitants of southern Mesopotamia and used their natural resources to...
000 - Maritime History Matters
Thanks for dipping your toes in the figurative waters here with the Maritime History Podcast! I'm Brandon Huebner and I'll briefly introduce the podcast...