Category: Ancient History
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The fall of Rome and the wandering of peoples
The feat of Atilla“…The people of the Huns, but little known from ancient records, dwelling beyond the Maeotic Sea near the ice-bound ocean, exceed every degree of savagery. Since there the cheeks of the children are deeply furrowed with the steel from…
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10 Things About Ancient History You Should Really Know
For this “10 things” I am going to constraint the historical period to the period before 1000 BCE. Basically all that came before Greece and Rome (from a Western perspective). 1) The Bronze Age Near East had its own equivalent of a Westphalian system. See The Brotherhood of Kings. 2) Even in the 3rd Millennium…
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Brotherhood of Kings: How International Relations Shaped the Ancient Near East
Link to review: Diplomacy among the aliens.
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Brotherhood of Kings: How International Relations Shaped the Ancient Near East
Link to review: Diplomacy among the aliens.