Shipwreck loot helped centralize the Majerteyn political organization.

Evidence

Loot from coastal shipwrecks had by this time become an important element in the Majerteyn trading economy, contributing to the development of a more centralised political organisation. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 739

Categorization

• XREF: A concrete instance of maritime resource extraction driving state formation, parallel to piracy economies elsewhere.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 739