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21 June 2005

Atlas of the Mughal Empire: Political and Economic Maps

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Atlas of the Mughal Empire: Political and Economic Maps With Detailed Notes, Bibliography, and Index
by Irfan Habib



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20 June 2005

DATASET: Courier routes connecting banking places in Western Europe (1370 CE-1430 CE)

http://www.ciolek.com/OWTRAD/DATA/tmcZWEm1400a.html

71 data points defining courier routes connecting banking places in England, Germany, France, Italy and Spain

A map 'Late fourteenth- and early fifteenth-century banking places and courier routes.' pp. 26, in: Spufford, Peter. 2002. Power and Profit: The Merchant in Medieval Europe. London: Thames & Hudson, and map, 'Routes from Burgundy and the Rhone valley to Lombardy' (Spufford 2002:159).



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16 June 2005

North Germanic Society and Sail

http://www.abc.se/~m10354/publ/soc&sail.htm

Society and Sail: On symbols as specific social values and ships as catalysts of social units

by Christer Westerdahl

"... an obvious ship archaeological problem. Why was the sail as an innovation accepted so late and so hesitantly by the North Germanic peoples? The second intriguing problem is the fact that it appears that the mast step and the Nordic sailing arrangement indicate that the Nordic sail rather was the result of an internal development in the north than an innovation directly from e.g. the Frisians. ..."



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