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Throw in the resources needed for ships, civilian and military, civil infrastructure and the like, and you see why there is so little forest left in the Mediter

• CydeWeys 4y ago
  I think the main reason there is that those areas have been inhabited for so long, and that wood is mostly used for cooking and heating, uses which would eclipse military production. And don't forget clearing forests to make fields for agriculture.
  • hef19898 4y ago
    The heating needs are usually regrowing. Agriculture is a thing, sure. The majority of the forests on the Italian peninsula was used up by the powera to be, from the Romans to the Venetians, was used for ships now lying somewhere on the sea floor. You can read up on the history of the Battle of Lepanto, the Venetian Arsenal and just how much wood was cut down for that fleet on the Venetian side not to speak of the Ottomans. Having the logistics in place for these kind of things is among the main reasons the Roman were able to buiod their empire in the first place.