The genesis of this maritime world,

maybe it goes back further, but as far

back as I go, is the Athenian empire

that's is hugging the shores of the

Aegean Ionian seas, and it's all about

the trade that's accruing there, and

that's paying for their empire. The

Romans, likewise, a very another rimland

empire, very different from the

consolidated empires like Russia and

China. [music] And think about the

terminology, Mediterranean, meta,

middle, terranean, land, so it's the sea

in the middle of the lands. Whereas the

terminology for China,

zhongguo, uh

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>> central guo, kingdom. So, it's the

kingdom among the kingdoms. One term

emphasizes the centrality of the sea,

the other the centrality of the land.

Different way of looking at things.