Ancient Civilizations
epub |eng | 2011-08-21 | Author:Rosenstein, Nathan; Morstein-Marx, Robert; Morstein-Marx, Robert & Robert Morstein-Marx

Supplying Rome’s Needs How did the city of Rome acquire the food, water, and other supplies it needed? Not only did the city have a rapidly increasing population during the ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-10 | Author:Christopher Smith

This would prove to be a tragic failing. In the 4th century, several city-states seem to have started to revive their fortunes, concentrating on the renewed challenges from the Gauls ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2000-04-04 | Author:Livy

( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 4,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1990-09-14 | Author:Michael Grant

IV THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT FAILED 8 Ally against Ally Another very relevant and destructive disunity which helped to destroy the Roman Empire was of a political and geographical nature. For ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jerry Toner

COMMENTARY The family was the basic unit of Roman society and the father sat at its head. He had a duty to protect those within the household but also to ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Philip Freeman [Philip Freeman]

Of the seven who had marched against Thebes, only Adrastus and Polynices now remained. The king of Argos fled the battlefield on the divine horse Arion, offspring of Demeter when ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Simkins

A 3rd century cavalry helmet found at Heddernheim. The helmet is of iron, with embossed and engraved bronze skinning; in this drawing the toned areas are exposed iron. Helmets of ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bob Blaisdell [Bob Blaisdell]

[The jury then declared Socrates guilty; Meletus called for the death penalty.] There are many reasons why I am not grieved, O men of Athens, at the vote of condemnation. ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 4,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-05-15 | Author:P. G. Maxwell-Stuart [Maxwell-Stuart, P. G.]

7 The Rosicrucian Episode and its Aftermath The early seventeenth century continued to see people’s constant attempt to produce gold by transmutation, and their ever more intricate experiments with a ...
( Category: Occult & Paranormal April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Stoneman

CHAPTER SIX Invasion (II): The Wooden Walls The daring Greeks deride the martial shew And heap their vallies with the gaudy foe. Th’insulted sea with humbler thoughts he gains, A ...
( Category: Asia April 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-12-15 | Author:Charles River Editors [Editors, Charles River]

The Necho mentioned in this passage is Nekau I, who was the progenitor of Egypt’s Twenty Sixth Dynasty and the father of Psamtek I (664-610 BC), the king who was ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 3,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-10-13 | Author:J. M. Adovasio & Olga Soffer & Jake Page [Adovasio, J. M.]

Figure 7-2. Bracelets and beads made of ivory from the Upper Paleolithic site of Mezin, Ukraine. COURTESY O. SOFFER Even in the face of these finds and others that show ...
( Category: World April 3,2018 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2015-05-21 | Author:I.F. Stone [Stone, I.F.]

12 Xenophon, Plato, and the Three Earthquakes Xenophon and Plato were in their teens when the dictatorship of the Four Hundred was established in 411 b.c., old enough to be ...
( Category: Philosophy April 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-18 | Author:Graham Shipley [Shipley, Graham]

( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 3,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Holt, Frank L.;

CHAPTER NINE Coins and the Collapse of Civilization Cognitive Numismatics II In the autumn of 1962, a freshly plowed field in the town of Rawa Mazowiecka yielded an unexpected find.1 ...
( Category: Middle East April 3,2018 )