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If we want to go even backwards, the sudden demand for citrus fruit in Sicily was due to the high incidence of scurvy in long-distance sea expedition in the 1800s, that were in turn facilitated by new methods of measuring longitude, first of all the invention of the chronometer, a watch (portable, small) with clock (precise) characteristics that was the great disruptive invention of its age. In the end, we can say that mafia originated from the desire of knowing what time is exactly in the borough of Greenwich, London, when you are in the middle of the Atlantic.