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Textbook of seamanship, 1891, is an updated age of sail textbook at the beginning of the true transition of warships from sail to steam power. Thus, for the most part, maritime trade routes in the bronze age mediterranean are thought to resemble a modern traffic rotary. The earliest representations of bronze age ships come from a. Shelley wachsmann meadows professor of biblical archaeology.
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