MARITIME historian Lincoln Paine always takes every chance he gets to stress the importance of the ocean in world history.

In his groundbreaking book The Sea and Civilization, he explains the role that the ocean has played since ancient times in the spread of goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures across and along the world's waterways; how ancient people first came into contact with one another by the ocean; and how the rise and fall of civilizations can be traced to the sea.

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