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and the Mediterranean (including the Nile and other Middle Eastern rivers). The Caribbean, which meets the criteria as a "nursery" region for maritime experimentation, with warm waters and mutually intervisible islands, did not develop sailing technology, but adopted it after the arrival of European explorers. The geography of the Nile, with a northward-flowing current and the prevailing wind blowing in the opposite direction, was conducive

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