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Heraclius, Emperor of Byzantium
Author: Walter E. Kaegi Heraclius, Emperor of Byzantium Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521814596 2003 Format: PDF Size: 17,4 МБ Language: English Pages: 372 This book evaluates the life and empire of the pivotal yet controversial Byzantine emperor Heraclius (ad. 610-641), a contemporary of the Prophet Muhammad. His stormy war-torn reign is critical for understanding the background to fundamental changes in the Balkans and the Middle East, including the emergence of Islam. Heraclius' skills enabled him to capture and recapture important territory, including Jerusalem, Syria and Egypt. Yet, they proved to be of little value when he confronted early Islamic conquests.
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Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
Author: Christopher I. Beckwith Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present Princeton University Press 2009 504 Format: Pdf Size: 3,8 MB Language: English The first complete history of Central Eurasia from ancient times to the present day, Empires of the Silk Road represents a fundamental rethinking of the origins, history, and significance of this major world region. Christopher Beckwith describes the rise and fall of the great Central Eurasian empires, including those of the Scythians, Attila the Hun, the Turks and Tibetans, and Genghis Khan and the Mongols. In addition, he explains why the heartland of Central Eurasia led the world economically, scientifically, and artistically for many centuries despite invasions by Persians, Greeks, Arabs, Chinese, and others. In retelling the story of the Old World from the perspective of Central Eurasia, Beckwith provides a new understanding of the internal and external dynamics of the Central Eurasian states and shows how their people repeatedly revolutionized Eurasian civilization. Beckwith recounts the Indo-Europeans' migration out of Central Eurasia, their mixture with local peoples, and the resulting development of the Graeco-Roman, Persian, Indian, and Chinese civilizations; he details the basis for the thriving economy of premodern Central Eurasia, the economy's disintegration following the region's partition by the Chinese and Russians in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the damaging of Central Eurasian culture by Modernism; and he discusses the significance for world history of the partial reemergence of Central Eurasian nations after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Gifts for the Gods: Images from Ancient Egyptian Temples
Author: Deborah Schorsch Gifts for the Gods: Images from Ancient Egyptian Temples Metropolitan Museum of Art 2007 ISBN: 1588392317 Language: English Pages: 256 Format: PDF Size: 33,03 МБ Throughout their long history, the ancient Egyptians crafted luminous statues of bronze, copper, silver, and gold for use in interactions with their gods—from ritual dramas enacted in the inner sanctuaries of temples to festival processions and celebrations attended by the multitudes. This volume, which accompanies an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, is the first to focus on the art and significance of Egyptian metal statuary.
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Ancient Greek Cults: A Guide
Ancient Greek Cults: A Guide Routledge Author: Jennifer Larson 2007 Pages: 320 Format: PDF Size: 3 mb Language: English Using archaeological, epigraphic, and literary sources; and incorporating current scholarly theories, this volume will serve as an excellent companion to any introduction to Greek mythology, showing a side of the Greek gods to which most students are rarely exposed. Detailed enough to be used as a quick reference tool or text, and providing a readable account focusing on the oldest, most widespread, and most interesting religious practices of the ancient Greek world in the Archaic and Classical periods, Ancient Greek Cults surveys ancient Greek religion through the cults of its gods and goddesses, heroes and heroines. Jennifer Larson conveniently summarizes a vast amount of material in many languages, normally inaccessible to undergrad students, and explores, in detail, the variety of cults celebrated by the Greeks, how these cults differed geographically, and how each deity was conceptualized in local cult titles and rituals. Including an introductory chapter on sources and methods, and suggestions for further reading this book will allow readers to gain a fresh perspective on Greek religion.
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The Armies and Enemies of Imperial Rome
The Armies and Enemies of Imperial Rome Author: Phil Barker Wargames Research Group ISBN: 0904417182 1981 Pages: 147 Language: English Format: PDF Size: 26 MB Phil Barker is one of the major figures in the development of the modern hobby of tabletop wargaming, particularly that of ancient warfare, and is a co-founder of the Wargames Research Group.
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The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt
Author: Ian Shaw The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt Oxford University Press 2004 ISBN: 0192804588 Language: English Pages: 550 Format: PDF Size: 27,15 МБ The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt uniquely covers 700,000 years of ancient Egypt, from c. 700,000 BC to AD 311. Following the story from the Egyptians' prehistoric origins to their conquest by the Persians, Greeks, and Romans, this book resurrects a fascinating society replete with remarkable historical information.
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1000 Facts - Ancient Egypt
Author : Belinda Gallagher : 1000 Facts - Ancient Egypt (1000 Facts on...) Miles Kelly Publishing Ltd : 2007 ISBN: 9781842369357 Pages: 224 Format : epub Size : 14 MB Language : English This e-book provides a rich source of information with maximum impact and minimum clutter. Exactly 1000 facts are covered by 100 topics, each with 10 key points that provide a simple but memorable handle on the subject. Fascinating information panels as well as extended captions amplify this quick fire approach.
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Warfare in the Roman Republic: From the Etruscan Wars to the Battle of Actium
Author: Lee L. Brice Warfare in the Roman Republic: From the Etruscan Wars to the Battle of Actium ABC-CLIO 2014 Format: PDF Size: 10.4 Mb Language: English The study of ancient Rome remains both a high-interest topic and a staple of high school and university curricula, while recent Hollywood movies continue to heighten popular interest in Rome. This multi-format handbook examines warfare in ancient Rome during the republic period, from approximately 400 BCE to 31 BCE. Presenting ready reference, primary source documents, statistical information, and a chronology, the title explore all aspects of conflict during this time period, including key military leaders, pivotal battles and sieges, new weapons and technologies, and the intersections of warfare and society in the ancient world. The reference entries provide detailed snapshots of key people, events, groups, places, weapons systems, and strategies that enable readers to easily understand the critical issues during 400 years of the Roman Republic, while various overview, causes, and consequences essays offer engaging, in-depth coverage of the most important wars. By providing students with in-depth information about how the Roman Army operated, they develop a fuller understanding Roman, ancient, and world history.
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The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt Author: Toby Wilkinson Random House ISBN: 0747599491 2010 Pages: 672 Language: English Format: PDF Size: 33.7 mb The story of Ancient Egypt and the extraordinary civilisation that flourished along the banks of the River Nile can seem like a gorgeous pageant studded with exceptional events. Among them are the building of the pyramids, the conquest of Nubia, Akhenaten's religious revolution, the power and beauty of Nefertiti, the life and death of Tutankhamun, the ruthlessness of Ramesses, Alexander the Great's invasion, and Cleopatra's fatal entanglement with Rome which led to the fall of Ptolemaic Egypt
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The Vikings
The Vikings (World History) Author: Don Nardo 2011 Lucent Books Format: PDF Size: 12 Mb Pages: 112 ISBN: 1420503162 Language: English For the people of Europe in the early medieval era, the story of the Vikings was one of unexpected and naked violence, of the triumph of the strong and ruthless, and of the suffering of the weak and innocent. The prelude to this epic tale of woe was rooted in late ancient times. In the final century of the Roman Empire, spanning the 400s A.D., tribal peoples from across northern Europe began migrating. Searching for new lands, economic opportunities, and often simply booty, they steadily invaded, overran, and absorbed the empire’s outlying provinces. As a result, in the year 476 that realm officially ceased to exist.
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CRISIS OF ROME: The Jugurthine and Northern Wars and the Rise of Marius
Author: Gareth Sampson CRISIS OF ROME: The Jugurthine and Northern Wars and the Rise of Marius Pen and Sword 2010 Format: epub Size: 12.5 Mb Language: English In the later 2nd century BC, after a period of rapid expansion and conquest, the Roman Republic found itself in crisis. In North Africa her armies were already bogged down in a long difficult guerrilla war in a harsh environment when invasion by a coalition of Germanic tribes, the Cimbri, Teutones and Ambrones, threatened Italy and Rome itself, inflicting painful defeats on Roman forces in pitched battle Gaius Marius was the man of the hour. The first war he brought to an end through tactical brilliance, bringing the Numidian King Jugurtha back in chains. Before his ship even returned to Italy, the senate elected Marius to lead the war against the northern invaders. Reorganizing and reinvigorating the demoralized Roman legions, he led them to two remarkable victories in the space of months, crushing the Teutones and Ambrones at Aquiae Sextae and the Cimbri at Vercellae. The Roman army emerged from this period of crisis a much leaner and more professional force and the author examines the extent to which the 'Marian Reforms' were responsible for this and the extent to which they can be attributed to Marius himself.
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Ilios The City and Country of the Trojans.
Author: Schliemann, Dr. Henry. Ilios The City and Country of the Trojans. Harper & Brothers, 1881 Format: PDF Size: 82,18 mb Language: English The Results of Researches and Discoveries on the Site of Troy and Throughout the Troad in the Years 1871-72-73-78-79. With Maps, Plans, and About 1800 Illustrations
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Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail
Author: William Ophuls Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2012 Format: pdf/epub Size: 1.2 Mb Language: English "Immoderate Greatness" explains how a civilization’s very magnitude conspires against it to cause downfall. Civilizations are hard-wired for self-destruction. They travel an arc from initial success to terminal decay and ultimate collapse due to intrinsic, inescapable biophysical limits combined with an inexorable trend toward moral decay and practical failure. Because our own civilization is global, its collapse will also be global, as well as uniquely devastating owing to the immensity of its population, complexity, and consumption. To avoid the common fate of all past civilizations will require a radical change in our ethos—to wit, the deliberate renunciation of greatness—lest we precipitate a dark age in which the arts and adornments of civilization are partially or completely lost.
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Rome - Echoes of Imperial Glory
Author: Collective Rome - Echoes of Imperial Glory (Lost Civilizations Series) Time-Life Books 1994 Format: PDF Pages: 176 Language: English Size: 32.7 MB Long before the age of Julius Caesar and the days of empire, the Forum was the place wher eRomans came to witness and take part in the great moments of their communal history. The Forum's beginnings seem as misty as those of Rome itself. Readers assume the role of archaeologists, uncovering secrets of ancient civilizations. Stunning photographs and illustrations, plus detailed cutaways, maps and diagrams.
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Three Byzantine Military Treatises
Author: George T. Dennis Three Byzantine Military Treatises Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection ISBN: 0884023397 1985 Format: PDF Size: 16,5 МБ Language: English Pages: 396 Threatened on all sides by relentless enemies for a thousand years, the Byzantines needed ready armies and secure borders. To this end, experienced commanders compiled practical handbooks of military strategy. Three such manuals are presented here. The Anonymous Byzantine Treatise on Strategy was written by a retired combat engineer around the middle of the sixth century, while Skirmishing and Campaign Organization and Tactics date from the late tenth century and concern warfare in the mountains along the Syrian frontier and campaigns in the rugged terrain of the Balkans. These treatises provide information not only on tactics and weaponry but also on the motivations of the men who risked their lives to defend the empire.
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The Forge of Christendom: The End of Days and the Epic Rise of the West
Author: Tom Holland The Forge of Christendom The End of Days and the Epic Rise of the West Anchor ISBN: 0385520581 2009 Format: EPUB Size: 10,4 МБ Language: English Pages: 512 In AD 900, few would have guessed that the splintering kingdoms of Christendom were candidates for future greatness. Hemmed in by implacable enemies on three sides, and by ocean on the fourth, it seemed that the Christian people had nowhere to turn. Indeed, there were many who feared—cast in the Millennium’s shadow—that they were nearing the time when the Antichrist would appear, drowning the world in blood and heralding its end. But the Antichrist did not appear, and Christendom did not collapse. Instead, forged from the convulsions of those terrible times, there emerged a new civilization as the Christian people set to the heroic task of building a Jerusalem on earth themselves. With an epic sweep that transports us from the crucifixion to the First Crusade, and from the glitter of Constantinople to the bleak shores of Canada, Tom Holland’s The Forge of Christendom is a brilliant study of a truly fateful revolution: the emergence of Western Europe for the first time as a distinctive and expansionist power.
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The Cambridge Ancient History
The Cambridge Ancient History Author: composite authors Cambridge University Press 1970 - 1991 Pages: 16525 Format: PDF Quality: OCR Language: English Size: 980 mb
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Rome and China: Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires
Author: Walter Scheidel Rome and China: Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires (Repost) O/rd U,..ty P.ess 2009 Pages: 257 ISBN: 0195336909 Format: PDF Size: 3 mb Language: English Quality: Good Two thousand years ago, up to one-half of the human species was contained within two political systems, the Roman empire in western Eurasia (centered on the Mediterranean Sea) and the Han empire in eastern Eurasia (centered on the great North China Plain). Both empires were broadly comparable in terms of size and population, and even largely coextensive in chronological terms (221 BCE to 220 CE for the Qin/Han empire, c. 200 BCE to 395 CE for the unified Roman empire). At the most basic level of resolution, the circumstances of their creation are not very different. In the East, the Shang and Western Zhou periods created a shared cultural framework for the Warring States, with the gradual consolidation of numerous small polities into a handful of large kingdoms which were finally united by the westernmost marcher state of Qin. In the Mediterranean, we can observe comparable political fragmentation and gradual expansion of a unifying civilization, Greek in this case, followed by the gradual formation of a handful of major warring states (the Hellenistic kingdoms in the east, Rome-Italy, Syracuse and Carthage in the west), and likewise eventual unification by the westernmost marcher state, the Roman-led Italian confederation. Subsequent destabilization occurred again in strikingly similar ways: both empires came to be divided into two halves, one that contained the original core but was more exposed to the main barbarian periphery (the west in the Roman case, the north in China), and a traditionalist half in the east (Rome) and south (China). These processes of initial convergence and subsequent divergence in Eurasian state formation have never been the object of systematic comparative analysis. This volume, which brings together experts in the history of the ancient Mediterranean and early China, makes a first step in this direction, by presenting a series of comparative case studies on clearly defined aspects of state formation in early eastern and western Eurasia, focusing on the process of initial developmental convergence. It includes a general introduction that makes the case for a comparative approach; a broad sketch of the character of state formation in western and eastern Eurasia during the final millennium of antiquity; and six thematically connected case studies of particularly salient aspects of this process.
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Time Frame BC 3000-1500 - The Age of God-Kings
Author: Collective Time Frame BC 3000-1500 - The Age of God-Kings Time-Life Books 1987 Format: PDF Pages: 180 Language: English Size: 23.6 MB Contains The Kingdom on the Nile, The Ziggurats of Ur, Master Builders in the Indus Valley, Lords of the Labyrinth, Yellow River Dynasties, and The Sacred Megaliths. Maps, Color Illustrations, and Photographs throughout.
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