Conclusions: Five Mediterranean Lessons from Catalonia—Diversity, Exchange, Development, Crises and Resilience

Jordi Catalan Vidal ()
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Jordi Catalan Vidal: University of Barcelona

Chapter Chapter 8 in Crises and Transformation in the Mediterranean World, 2023, pp 345-453 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Since the Bronze AgeBronze Age to the nineteenth century, the costs of transportation by sea had been much lower than by landland. The diversitydiversity of endowments along the Mediterranean Basin favoured the emergence of towns which exportedmanufacturesmanufactured goods manufacturesmanufactures and imported cerealscereal. The expansion of exchange, specially from East to West, favoured the transmission of innovationsinnovations and higher levels of developmentdevelopment and well-being. But this was not a sustained process given that the sea could also favoured invasionsinvasions by more extractive peoples or the transmission of pandemicspandemics and resulting crises.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-24502-2_8

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