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| Author | : Nic Fields |
| Publisher | : Osprey Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2006-01-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781841769448 |
Chariots, the first mobile fighting vehicle, seem to have originated in Mesopotamia in the third millennium BC. The highly mobile two-wheeled war chariot, carrying a driver and an archer armed with a short composite bow, revolutionized military tactics after 1700 BC. This expensive weapon spread throughout the Middle East and is thought to have reached Egypt with the conquering Hyksos. It spread into Asia Minor, Greece, and was known in Northern Europe by 1500 BC. This book covers the evolution of the war chariot throughout the Bronze Age, detailing its design, development and combat history - in particular its fundamental involvement at the battle of Qadesh.
| Author | : Mary Aiken Littauer |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 776 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9789004117990 |
This collection of papers is primarily concerned with wheeled transport in antiquity. They shed much light on the construction of the vehicles, the ways their draught animals were harnessed and controlled, and on the uses to which the equipages were put. Ridden animals also feature in this collection of papers.
| Author | : Robert Drews |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780691025919 |
This text attempts to account for the destruction of key cities in the Mediterranean at the end of the Bronze Age, circa the 12th century BC. The author proposes a military explanation for the destruction of four important kingdoms at this time.
| Author | : Dan Howard |
| Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 307 |
| Release | : 2011-11-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1783032839 |
“A very valuable piece of work, providing a splendid overview” of the weapons, armor, shields and chariots used in warfare from 3000 BC to 1200 BC (HistoryOfWar.org). This book is a fascinating discussion of the development of the military equipment of the earliest organized armies. Dan Howard describes the development of weapons, armor and chariots, how they were made and their tactical use in battle. Spanning from the introduction of massed infantry by the Sumerians (c. 26th century BC) through to the collapse of the chariot civilizations (c. 12th century BC), this is the period of the epic struggles described in the Old Testament and Homer’s Iliad, the clashes of mighty empires like those of the Babylonians, Egyptians and Hittites. In Bronze Age Military Equipment, Howard provides “an able and readable review that is supported in the text by drawings and sketches, but there is also an excellent full color photographic section that shows replica weapons and armor created in bronze” (Firetrench).
| Author | : Seth Button |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 410 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Robert Drews |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2020-03-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0691209979 |
The Bronze Age came to a close early in the twelfth century b.c. with one of the worst calamities in history: over a period of several decades, destruction descended upon key cities throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, bringing to an end the Levantine, Hittite, Trojan, and Mycenaean kingdoms and plunging some lands into a dark age that would last more than four hundred years. In his attempt to account for this destruction, Robert Drews rejects the traditional explanations and proposes a military one instead.
| Author | : M. A. Littauer |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 48 |
| Release | : 196? |
| Genre | : Chariots |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Catherine Mayo |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 389 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Agamemnon (Greek mythology) |
| ISBN | : 9781922077943 |
Menelaos, the youngest son of the High King of Greece, is surrounded by power, intrigue, luxury and incalculable wealth, and should be one of the luckiest people in the world. But he's not. In less than a year, his whole world has disintegrated and he's on the run, trying to escape his father's assassins and skidding ever deeper into danger. Odysseus, his best friend, is the only person who can save him, but Odysseus's great ideas have a tendency to backfire.
| Author | : P. A. L. Greenhalgh |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 1973-05-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0521200563 |
First published in 1973, this is a study of the literary and archaeological developments in the warfare of early Greece. Dr Greenhalgh considers in particular the military history of the chariot and mounted horse, both as they were represented in poetry and art and as they were used in reality from about 1100 to 500BC. He finds the picture superficially presented by the sources incoherent and often incredible, and attempts a reconstruction which does justice to both tactical and technical possibilities and to the social and economic facts of life in the period. He shoes how the Homeric poems, for example, can be systematically misleading - in part misconceiving the character of the Mycenaean age, and in part conflating with this misconception the conditions of their own time. This illustrated study will be of value to archaeologists, historians of warfare and Homeric specialists; its wider implications will interest social and political historians.
| Author | : Richard Osgood |
| Publisher | : The History Press |
| Total Pages | : 197 |
| Release | : 2011-11-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0752476025 |
The Bronze Age, so named because of the technological advances in metalworking and countless innovations in the manufacture and design of tools and weapons, is among the most fascinating periods in human history. Archaeology has taught us much about the way of life, habits and homes of Bronze Age people, but as yet little has been written about warfare. What was Bronze Age warfare like? How did people fight and against whom? What weapons were used? Did they fortify their settlements, and, if so, were these intended as defensive or offensive structures? in response to these and many other questions, Bronze Age Warfare offers and intriguing insight into warfare and society, life and death in Europe 4000 years ago. It describes the surviving evidence of conflict - fortifications, weapons and body protection, burials, human remains and pictorial evidence - and seeks to understand the role played by aggression in the prehistoric world.
