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Monsoon navigation and the seasonal sailing system (c. 500 BCE–500 CE)

500 BCE - 500

Middle Passage: mortality, shipboard conditions, and reform efforts (1600–1850)

1672 - 1850

Maritime Silk Road voyages and Southeast Asian links (7th–15th centuries CE)

682 - 1433

Marco Polo's travels and Venetian reporting on Silk Road cities (1271–1295 CE)

1271 - 1324

Mansa Musa's Hajj and Its Economic-Diplomatic Aftermath (1324–1335)

1312 - 1375

Manila Galleon trade between Acapulco and Manila (1565-1815)

1565 - 1815

Malacca and the Straits entrepôt system in Southeast Asian colonial trade (1511-1824)

1511 - 1824

Malabar pepper trade and Roman demand (c. 1st century BCE–6th century CE)

118 BCE - 600

Lübeck–Hamburg alliance and the formation of the Hanseatic League (c. 1241–1356)

1158 - 1370

Lübeck merchant oligarchy and urban governance (c. 1226–1600)

1226 - 1600

Liverpool's rise as a dominant slave-trading port (1699–1807)

1698 - 1807

Liverpool slave‑trading firms and transatlantic voyages (1740–1807)

1740 - 1807

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