The Mediterranean in history

What is the Mediterranean? / David Abulafia

Physical setting / Oliver Rackham

First trading empires: prehistory to c.1000 BC / Marlene Suano

Battle for the sea routes: 1000-300 BC / Mario Torelli

Creation of Mare Nostrum: 300 BC - 500 AD / Geoffrey Rickman

Mediterranean breaks up: 500-100 / John Pryor

Christian Mediterranean: 1000-1500 / Michel Balard

Resurgent Islam: 1500-1700 / Molly Greene

Mediterranean as a battleground of the Euopean powers: 1700-1900 / Jeremy Black

Globalized Mediterranean:1900-2000