{"id":6279,"date":"2016-08-23T10:21:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T10:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/08\/23\/word-of-the-day-thalassocracy\/"},"modified":"2016-08-23T10:21:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T10:21:32","slug":"word-of-the-day-thalassocracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/08\/23\/word-of-the-day-thalassocracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day: Thalassocracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

A thalassocracy<\/strong> (from Greek language<\/a> \u03b8\u03ac\u03bb\u03b1\u03c3\u03c3\u03b1<\/span> (thalassa<\/em>), meaning "sea", and \u03ba\u03c1\u03b1\u03c4\u03b5\u1fd6\u03bd<\/span> (kratein<\/em>), meaning "to rule", giving \u03b8\u03b1\u03bb\u03b1\u03c3\u03c3\u03bf\u03ba\u03c1\u03b1\u03c4\u03af\u03b1<\/span>(thalassokratia<\/em>), "rule of the sea") is a state with primarily maritime realms\u2014an empire<\/a> at sea (such as the Phoenician<\/a> network of merchant cities) or a sea-borne empire. (Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

Example<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Putin is now massing troops near Ukraine. Iran is absorbing Iraq and Syria. China has carved out a thalassocracy in the South China Sea. Tensions will only rise in these areas in the next 90 days, to the point of either outright war or more insidious and humiliating withdrawals from U.S. interests and allies. Either scenario favors Trump\u2019s Jacksonian bluster.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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A thalassocracy (from Greek language \u03b8\u03ac\u03bb\u03b1\u03c3\u03c3\u03b1 (thalassa), meaning "sea", and \u03ba\u03c1\u03b1\u03c4\u03b5\u1fd6\u03bd (kratein), meaning "to rule", giving \u03b8\u03b1\u03bb\u03b1\u03c3\u03c3\u03bf\u03ba\u03c1\u03b1\u03c4\u03af\u03b1(thalassokratia), "rule of the sea") is a state with primarily maritime realms\u2014an empire at sea (such as the Phoenician network of merchant cities) or a sea-borne empire. (Wikipedia) Example: Putin is now massing troops near Ukraine. Iran is absorbing … Continue reading “Word of the Day: Thalassocracy”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,280],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}