https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/were-the-medieval-maghrebi-traders-p2p-pioneers/2009/08/02 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Mon, 13 Oct 2014 13:06:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/were-the-medieval-maghrebi-traders-p2p-pioneers/2009/08/02/comment-page-1#comment-486324 Sat, 24 Sep 2011 14:42:12 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=4172#comment-486324 This is good material and it is strengthened by being compared to the halawa networks and the Dhow Cultures of the Indian Ocean. Given that the merchant network “nations” pre-date these examples, I would be very surprised if they were not built upon similar prior organizations. One of the unfortunate mysteries of the Eastern Mediterranean area is the result floods, rising sea levels, and seismic activity in the region which has submerged a great deal of artifacts/evidence of cultures in that region. Somehow, somewhere there are buried or submerged artifacts which would validate the long commercial history of transactions and formal participation in the these merchant network nations.

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