The Interconnected Mediterranean of the Iron Age

Tides of History

Wondery / Patrick Wyman

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Prior to the Iron Age, the Mediterranean had already been a highway moving around goods, people, and ideas for millennia. But as a new era dawned, the Mediterranean became something very different: an interconnected space, bringing together all of its shores for the first time.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to Tides of History, add free on Amazon Music.
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0:16.8	The ship lay on the beach, half in and half out of the water.
0:20.3	The receding waves pounding at its stern as the tide went further and further out.
0:25.0	Sailors climbed down rope ladders and made the short jump off the side, wind and rain
0:29.1	lashing at them as they descended.
0:30.9	Their bare feet slapping onto the rough sand.
0:33.9	The mostly solid ground was a welcome change from the pitching deck of the ship after
0:37.5	that last storm, which had almost capsized their vessel on its trip north.
0:41.7	A little bit of wind and rain was miserable, to be sure, but a marked improvement over
0:45.6	the possibility of being dashed against hidden rocks or capsized in the middle of the sea
0:50.1	never to be found.
0:52.7	One by one, the sailors still up on deck passed down large ceramic storage jars and stacked
0:57.0	them in pyramids on the drier part of the beach.
1:00.1	Liquid sloshed inside the jars and the soaked, tired, thirsty sailors strongly considered
1:04.5	opening one and drowning their fatigue in this fine vintage of wine produced on a sunny hillside
1:09.0	in southern Sicily.
1:10.9	But the ship's captain was watching.
1:12.2	He was a hard-eyed, unpleasant man from Carthage like many of the vessels crew, and the sailors
1:17.1	had no desire to hear his voice lashing up with the hard syllables of curses in the punic
1:21.6	language.
1:22.6	Besides, their work was almost done.
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