
Big Ship Capitalism with Laleh Khalili
The Dig
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The Sea Currents and the Sea's Currents
Ships couldn't come very close to the coast in most of these places. The Gulf is subject to wind storms and sand storms, and ship's currents. But despite all those kinds of disadvantages, geographic disadvantage, disadvantages and topographic disadvantages, coate ended up flourishing. It flourished in part because it had oil, so it had quite a lot of resources with which it could build deeper harbours. And thenand duby, actually, they don't have a natural harbour.
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