In the millennium after 300 BC, the western Indian Ocean emerged as a main hub of Old
World exchange. Study of this commerce long depended on separate regional …

In Rome and the Indian Ocean Trade from Augustus to the Early Third Century CE Matthew
Adam Cobb examines the development of commercial exchange between the …

This volume presents eighteen papers by leading Roman historians and archaeologists
discussing trade in the Roman Empire during the period c. 100 BC to AD 350. It focuses …

The period from the death of Alexander the Great to the rise of the Islam (c. late fourth
century BCE to seventh century CE) saw a significant growth in economic, diplomatic and …

In many ways it is appropriate to think of Constantinople and Jerusalem as poles of the late
antique world, and as each other's antipodes. To regard the former as being the seat of …

In 30 bce, the triumvir Octavian (Augustus from 27 bce) annexed Egypt and ushered in a
politically unified Mediterranean world, as well as inaugurating a 'Roman phase'of …

Rites and the Making of Islamic Society) and articles (such as Tziona Grossmark's study of
glass within Jewish law and Ruba Kana'an's use of Islamic legal sources in the …

This chapter reviews the evidence, nature, and development of maritime contacts in the Red
Sea and from the Red Sea into the western Indian Ocean from the Neolithic until the start of …

This article argues that historians will have a new understanding of northeast and east Africa
if they recall the medieval meaning of the terms Zanj and Ahabish, or Habasha. Before the …

The Crusades had a wide variety of impacts on societies throughout Europe, Asia, and
Africa. One such notable impact was its role in the development of knowledge between …