New IR and the Sea 3/22/11

Almost no state delt with more than 1 state at a time unless they were a maritime state

• Stable government
• economic capability
• maritime culture
• shipbuilding resources

• easy to train army - give wepon show how to use it
• train sailors takes years

• can tell army to start marching now and they can
• ships don't just move

• wood, cauking material, sail cloth, rope
• very advanced technology
• protect from animals
• alternating dry and wet environment

• best boats have 40 different kinds of wood
• oak is best, but tough - have to tie down so it grows bent

need a plant that is 600 ft long

• Queen Hapshetsut was going after shipbuilding resources
• 1500 BCE

• 700 BC
• try to poke a hole in other ship
• also make ship go faster - but not know till recently

480 BC

• ships supporting armies
• greek back into corner - one for one greece will win
• Athen's first real attempt at a sea power

Athens

• open, relatively democratic state
• money and trade economy
• advantageous position
• Shipbuilding was a civic duty

• access to sea
• not exposed

• build a ship for the city
• instead of donating

• Mediterrian was a good place to learn
• good at playing chicken
• becoming more powerful because of Navy

• predictable
• see land
• understand the currents

• sparta was good
• Athen's ignored them and built up Navy

Delian League

built walls from Athens to Piraeus

• carthage allows naval forces to decline
• fortune favors Rome in naval battles

• drop on other ships
• then run across

corvus

• run up and down italy
• has to go through land because Rome has navy
• exshaust resources

31 BC

• goodbye Marc Antony and Cleopatra
• crews sick
• take off and now Ceasar in control

allows Naval empire to decline

• burns
• pump
• seawater carries around
• put out with wine

Byzantium

350-450

1571

• famous battle
• muslims don't establish control of Mediteranean

1790

Sweden and Russia

Peter the great builds navy

• compass
• astrolobe
• block and tackle
• hull designs

• navigation - on ocean
• usually stay within sight of land

• pulleys
• rigging
• carry lots of cannons

1400's

• calls fleet home
• new ideas = bad

• square rigged sails
• shoot down into other ships
• go across ocean reliably

• Vasco de Gama
• Magellan's Circumnavigation

• State secrets
• portugal
• leaders in navigation

1525

• dockyard in India
• explosion of Europe into rest of Europe

• showing off
• intensification of rivalries

spain and england

• large spanish vs. small english ships
• move faster and tactics
• english fire

• letters of Marque and Reprisal
• everything you get from other side you c keep money just get rid of them