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The Shushtar Hydraulic System is a Sasanian era (3rd century CE) water irrigation system in Shushtar in Iran that included watermills, dams, tunnels and canals. The mills, one of which is still functioning, were used to grind wheat and barley...

A 1590 illustration showing a Spanish Manila galleon in the Ladrones Islands (Mariana Islands) in the Pacific Ocean. (From the Boxer Codex)

A 1734 copper print of a Spanish galleon. The text reads: Por Golfos mas procelosos, con valor, aresto y zelo, hace gala de Neptuno, esta Nave con su vuelo. - "Through the worst stormy waters, with courage, purpose, and zeal, this ship shows...

Dedication of Legio II Adiutrix to Antoninus Pius. Aquincum, Budapest.

Aquincum, Pannonia, modern-day Budapest, Hungary.

Tombstone of Gnaeus Musius, standard-bearer of Legio XIV Gemina, 1st century CE. Landesmuseum, Mainz.

Luggage from Asia used by passengers on such ships as the Manila galleons which connected Manila in the Philippines to Acapulco in Mexico from 1565 to 1815. (San Diego Fort Museum, Acapulco)

An illustration depicting Joan of Arc, by Albert Lynch, published in the Figaro Illustré magazine in 1903.

Painting depicting Joan of Arc, or Jeanne d'Arc. Painted by John Everett Millais in 1865, oil on canvas.

A portion of the 16-17th century fortifications at San Juan de Ulúa, an island opposite the port of Veracruz, Mexico, once a major port on the Spanish Main. The rings in the walls were for ships to tie themselves to.