In this ambitious work, he undertakes to cover the history of the entire Mediterranean from ancient Greece to the First World War. The author of our highly readable and entertaining core book, The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean, John Julius Norwich, is the author of well-received and fascinating histories of Sicily, Venice and Byzantium. But the history of the Mediterranean has also been written by nations or states such as Venice, France, Spain and others who sought to dominate its trade or to spread their culture and religions in the region. As we know, much of human history and many great cultures have emerged from the area around the Mediterranean Sea, cultures such as the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Carthaginans, Phoenecians, Ottomans, and the Arabs.
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