thalassocracy

A thalassocracy had thus emerged based on international trade.

Because of its political geography, Thyatis can best be described as a thalassocracy.

Athenian maritime power is the first example of thalassocracy in world history.

The sultanate was a thalassocracy, a realm based on controlling trade rather than land.

The use of the term "colony", however, like "thalassocracy", has been criticized in recent years.

The empire was a thalassocracy or maritime power that extended its influence from island to island.

The Srivijayan empire was a coastal trading centre and was a thalassocracy.

That was the thalassocracy of Tyre.

As Srivijaya expanded their thalassocracy, Buddhism thrived amongst its people.

As most of its power is based on trade and control of coastal cities, Demak can be considered as a thalassocracy.

By the middle of the 6th century BC, Carthage had grown into a fully independent thalassocracy.

It was a thalassocracy and did not extend its influence far beyond the coastal areas of the islands of Southeast Asia.

Greek thalassocracy was receptive to the idea, unlike the Chinese, whose cosmology was firmly land-based.

Indeed, the word thalassocracy itself was first used by the Greeks to describe the government of the Minoan civilization, whose power depended on its navy.

These settlements appear not only in the islands but also in harbours that were specially selected as support-points for thalassocracy.

Though not predominant in European affairs, Portugal did have an extensive colonial trading empire throughout the world backed by a powerful thalassocracy.

Nearly contemporaneous, the Dubrovnik Republic can be seen as a "thalassocracy," a 'protégé' of Venice.

Herodotus also spoke of the need to counter the Phoenician thalassocracy by developing a Greek "empire of the sea".

By that time, the IJN already lost air superiority and thalassocracy in those areas and these vessels suffered heavy losses.

The Fragility of Thalassocracy, Pericles to Heinlein.

The thalassocracy was visited by Spain's Magellan Expedition in 1521 and fought Spain in 1578's Castille War.

Some parts of present-day East Malaysia, especially the coastal regions, were once part of the thalassocracy of the Sultanate of Brunei.

On the other hand, the nature and limitations of the maritime technology of the age meant that the neither the Byzantines nor any of their opponents could develop a true thalassocracy.

The Republic reached its peak in the 15th and 16th centuries, when its thalassocracy rivalled that of the Republic of Venice and other Italian maritime republics.

It is necessary to distinguish this traditional sense of thalassocracy from an "empire", where the state's territories, though possibly linked principally or solely by the sea lanes, generally extend into mainland interiors.