"Surviving a Medieval Shipwreck" Topic
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Tango01 | 30 Jul 2018 9:16 p.m. PST |
"When mariners head out into the ocean, one of their greatest fears is to fall victim to a shipwreck. Countless stories from history tell of how ships have succumbed to the sea, and how dangerous the oceans can be for fishermen and sailors. One of these stories comes from the tenth-century. Trade between the Middle East and Eastern Asia grew steadily during the eighth and ninth centuries, as maritime routes became more common. Ships from the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula would navigate the Indian Ocean as far as China, returning home with cargoes of spices and silks. The voyages of these mariners were recorded in the middle of the tenth-century by a sea captain named Buzurg ibn-Shahriyar. In his work Kitab Aja'ib al-Hind (The Book of Wonders of India) he gives a glimpse of how life was for those who sailed the oceans in the Middle Ages. In one section Buzurg retells an account given to him by a merchant who survived a shipwreck in the year 919. He was part of a fleet of three ships with 1200 men that were heading to the west coast of India. According the the merchant these were extremely large ships and well run by their crews. It only took them 11 days for them to sail from the Persian Gulf to India, and then they spotted the country's mountains and landscape…." Main page link Amicalement Armand |
Puster | 01 Aug 2018 12:00 a.m. PST |
The world of Sindbad… from southeastern Africa to China. The discovery of the way around Africa by the Portugese had a far greater impact upon the world (at least until around 1900) then that of the Americas. |
Tango01 | 01 Aug 2018 11:19 a.m. PST |
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