Events Tagged: "Mediterranean"

Phoenicians spread wine culture - export wine and vines throughout Mediterranean, establish vineyards in colonies

Late Bronze Age Collapse begins - widespread destruction across eastern Mediterranean, multiple civilizations fall simultaneously

Tiglath-Pileser I reaches Mediterranean - Assyrian Empire at greatest extent of Middle period

Sacred stone voyages to Rome - black meteorite travels under heavy guard, every port celebrates arrival, mass hysteria of anticipation

Pompey clears Mediterranean of pirates - given extraordinary command, clears sea in three months

Charles Martel conquers Provence - drives Arabs from southern France, recovers Mediterranean coast

Bjorn Ironside's Mediterranean expedition begins - four-year voyage raiding Spain, North Africa, and Italy

Consulate of the Sea codified in Barcelona - maritime commercial law governing Mediterranean trade, includes partnership and insurance rules