Why did the Mediterranean stop being so interconnected? Was it Islam/Christianity? Was it land transport being easier?

Why did the Mediterranean stop being so interconnected? Was it Islam/Christianity? Was it land transport being easier?

Also indirect /med/ thread

You have to go back brown subhuman

I'm Swedish Jonas

No you aren't Macedonian Turk-Gypsy-Slav subhuman.

We were africa and shit

Sort yourself out

I think religion is the main factor that prevented trade between both sides.

But the fact that the major powers stopped being coastal countries probably played a huge role too

You will never be accepted as anything but walking genetic waste.

>Why did the Mediterranean stop being so interconnected?

Barbary piracy, until spaniards at the end of the XVIII century and americans in the early XIX stopped it, it was a pain in the ass to navigate around the mediterranean.

Whose acceptance are you talking about?

it never stopped

It makes me sad, mediterranean sea is the chosen sea, there should be a nation formed around it, we share more than what separates us.

...So, ok for Sweden?

Like Olive oil?

The Arab invasions in the 7th century that broke the "Roman" (Byzantine) empire, and the ensuing caliphates and finally the Ottomans, are what did it. All of a sudden, one side of the Med was Christian and the other was Muslim. By the time the Ottomans faded and Christians started taking over North Africa again it was too late.

You guys don't even have coastline there.

they are meds dumbass

Arabs+germans+turks

>illyricum

>Was it Islam/Christianity?
Yes.
>Was it land transport being easier?
lol no

It is mainly because of the new world. It made the Mediterranean irrelevant.

wh*Te man keeping us down

Med climate is absolutely horrible

adelaide is pretty nice

Religion

>implying

>so interconnected
as in Semites rising in rebelion and marching an army against rome
it was never well interconnected and it never stopped being interconnected