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Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind.

My name is Robert Lamb.

We were off yesterday for the holiday.

So today's episode is another vault episode.

This is going to be part three of our series from last year, Ancient Wars on the Wyand Dark Sea.

It originally published 827, 2024.

Let's jump right in.

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Okay. Mind, a production of IHeart Radio. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb.

And I am Joe McCormick, and we're back with part three of our series on the ore-powered

galleys of the ancient world. Now, if you haven't heard parts one and two yet, you should go

back, check those out first. But for a brief recap, in the previous episodes, we talked about the

difference between paddling with a paddle and rowing with an oar. An ore is, of course, resting on or

connected to part of the boat itself, and you typically face backwards when you

row. We talked about archaeological evidence of mesolithic wooden paddles found in northern Europe.

We talked about some of the pressures leading to the development of different power mechanisms

for ancient boats, wind-powered sails versus human-powered oars.

We discussed the different designs of war galleys in the ancient Mediterranean, and the considerations

that led to increasing concentration of rowers and oars, put more oars in, starting with single-level

galleys, the pentacconter, and its evolving forms,

and eventually the famous trirem, which had three levels of oarsmen, and was the dominant weapon of

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