The term's origins are found in its two syllables: Latin ( archia) or the Greek ἄρχειν ( archein) meaning “the rule of" and the Ancient Greek ῠ̔́δρη (húdrē) Ionic or hīdrə ( hudra) meaning "water snake," as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary. The term is most commonly used to describe a maritime society or maritime history in the Atlantic world, concerning political, economic, and social tensions on the docks and ports and out at sea, between the mid sixteenth-century extending to the nineteenth.The term also attests to the resistant and rebellious sailors, slaves and other oppressed individuals who acted out against the "land" powers of the central imperial government, like England between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. Engraving by Gilles Rousselet (17th century) Hercules slaying the many-headed Lernaean Hydra
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