Ancient Civilizations
epub |eng | 2014-11-16 | Author:Godfrey Hutchinson

Accordingly, throughout the whole area heavy assaults were made, but particularly against the Lakedaimonians, for their terrain was easily assailed and difficult to defend. Great rivalry arose between the two ...
( Category: Greece September 8,2015 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-04-11 | Author:Eric H. Cline [Cline, Eric H.]

Wilusa and Ahhiyawa In addition, at least one city-state that belonged to the coalition, specifically Wilusa/Wilusiya, continued to exist for another two centuries. During that time, Wilusa not only interacted ...
( Category: Greece September 8,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-07 | Author:Ralph D. Sawyer

The Military Pronouncements states: "When the officials are many but the people few; there is no distinction between the honored and lowly; the strong and weak insult each other; and ...
( Category: China August 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-08-22 | Author:Peter Armstrong [Armstrong, Peter]

Note: I have calculated the numbers of the Scottish army from the minimum number of men that would be needed to cover half a mile of front, allowing each a ...
( Category: Scotland August 25,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2009-08-29 | Author:Sunshine, Glenn S. [Sunshine, Glenn S.]

CHAPTER 7 A NEW PARADIGM OF KNOWLEDGE While the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Wars of Religion, the implications of the New World, and Pyrrhonical skepticism were breaking down the medieval ...
( Category: Rome August 24,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-03-01 | Author:Daniel Meyerson

“IT IS EASIER to understand humanity in general than to understand a single human being,” La Rochefoucauld tells us—a maxim which perfectly applies to Napoleon. For the role General Bonaparte ...
( Category: Middle East August 21,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-09-08 | Author:Kennell, Nigel M.

7 Leotychidas to Lysander Events in Greece had not stood still during Pausanias’ quixotic career in Asia Minor. Leotychidas, Cleomenes’ replacement for Demaratus and victor against the Persians at the ...
( Category: Greece August 19,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-06-29 | Author:Barry Strauss [Strauss, Barry]

At first sight, Themistocles’ words are disappointing. Then, on a second look, they reveal the eloquence of simplicity. There may have been no better way to tell the men how ...
( Category: Greece August 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-14 | Author:Ibn Khaldun [Khaldun, Ibn]

application of the word fard'id to a particular discipline, or its restriction to estate division, is part of the technical terminology the jurists created when the various disciplines and terminologies ...
( Category: Islam August 14,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2009-02-10 | Author:Richard Carrier [Carrier, Richard]

And though “they were not concerned at all to reform society,” they were concerned to maintain a satisfactory society ‘within’ society, which strove to be accepted by outsiders, while realizing ...
( Category: Rome July 31,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-18 | Author:John Argubright [Argubright, John]

“Sennacherib, the king over all, king of Assyria, sat upon a throne and viewed the plunder taken from Lachish." (ANET 288) Siege of Lachish Sennacherib’s Palace Wall Another confirmation is ...
( Category: Christianity July 30,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-07 | Author:Rosalie David

THE ROYAL FAMILY AT AMARNA There has been speculation that Akhenaten’s cult grew out of his father’s own policy of identification with the sun’s disc and his personal deification; in ...
( Category: General July 26,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1974-04-14 | Author:Immanuel Velikovsky [Velikovsky, Immanuel]

God's Land and Rezenu 1 The present chapter shows the conquest of Palestine by Thutmose III to have taken place, not in the Canaanite period, but in the days of ...
( Category: Egypt July 21,2015 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2015-01-16 | Author:Bill Cooper

“Since writing this article, C. R. Conder's work on "The Tell-Amarna Tablets" (London, 1893) has appeared. The translation of the letters from Jerusalem, though only of six of them, may ...
( Category: Israel & Palestine July 20,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-07-17 | Author:Hiram Bingham [Bingham, Hiram]

So we went back up the Hill of Roses to make further studies and to do some excavating. On the south side of the hilltop, opposite the long palace, is ...
( Category: Peru July 19,2015 )