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Students choose a decisive ancient conflict as the topic for this assignment.
Updated on Feb 28, 15
Created on Apr 22, 13
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SSHS Resource Centre's List: Ancient Conflicts
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Apr 30, 13
No historical subject has attracted more attention in France
and Germany during the last twenty years than the Latin
conquest of Constantinople. No other historical question
has had devoted to it during the same period the labors of
an equal number of illustrious historical students. -
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Apr 30, 13
ThePersian wars were also important. They strengthened the power and self-confidence of Athens in the first self-preservation exercise after the
era of the tyrannical rulers. -
Apr 30, 13
The Persians lost their wars in Greece, in part, because the triumphant Greeks wrote the histories and other texts that survive; and they stressed their
victories as inevitable and foreordained. -
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Apr 29, 13
Slide show featured many weapons and maps.
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Apr 22, 13
There can be no better way to start a volume on the practice of strategy than with
Alexander the Great.1 His performance as a strategist gives us a rare insight into
best practice, and sets an extremely high benchmark against which to judge those
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Apr 22, 13
September, 9 A.D., Kalkriese Hill, northern Germany: the Germanic warriors waited in grim silence. Three Roman
legions, commanded by General Publius Quintilius Varus, advanced across the Rhine into Anglo-Saxon territory.
The Romans hoped to expand Roman power, Roman law, and Roman culture. The Germans hoped to preserve
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Apr 22, 13
TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO A HERO LIVED, a charismatic man who changed the course of
global history.Yet his name, Arminius, or Hermann, or Armin, is seldom heard. The Germanics
probably called himArmin, but his name became Hermann in the centuries to follow (generally
attributed toMartin Luther).The Romans knewhimasArminius, it being the habit of the Romans
to add the suffix “ius” or “us” to names. Here is his story . . .
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