You might argue that the story, the history of civilizations, has been civilizations gathered around seas -- with the first ones around the Mediterranean, the more recent ones in the ascendents of Western power around the Atlantic.
Ju mund te argumentoni se historia, historia e civilizimit, ka civilizime te mbledhura rreth detrave-- me ato te parat rreth Mesdheut, ato më të fundit me prejardhje nga fuqia perëndimore rreth Atlantikut.