The Battle of Adrianople is described by Ammianus Marcellinus as the worst Roman military disaster since Cannae, the Battle of Adrianople saw the destruction of the army of the Eastern Roman Empire and the death of the emperor. But the fortifications of Constantinople curbed the success of the Goths
The Battle of Gaugamela was one of Alexanders greatest triumphs . Outnumbered five to one, the Macedonians defeated the Persians while Alexander outmaneuvered Darius, despite the fact that the great king fought on his own turf, armed with special weapons such as scythed chariots and elephants. comba
Hannibals destruction of a Roman army at the Battle of Cannae, by a brilliant double envelopment, provided a model for commanders for centuries. However, even this, the third of his great tactical victories over the Roman Republic, did not end the Punic Wars. cannasdata Who :Hannibal Barca (247-183
Caesars victory at the Battle of Alesia, where Roman military engineering prowess enabled him to defeat a vast Gallic army rushing to the aid of their leader Vercingetorix, secured Roman rule in Gaul. Although, with all his fortifications, Caesar had to put up a tough fight. Data from the Battle of
The Akkadian Empire created the first unified Mesopotamian kingdom of which there is news, more than 4,000 years ago. Before the appearance of the Akkadians, Mesopotamia was made up of many city-states, each of which had its own king, territory, and cities. In the south of Mesopotamia lived the Su
The palace of Knossos, on the island of Crete, is one of the most remarkable archaeological sites in the world . It was discovered and excavated by the British archaeologist Arthur Evans, who spent 30 years of his life dedicated to recovering lost civilization. Evans was familiar with ancient Greek
The ancient Nubians lived in a region of northeast Africa which is located south of present-day Egypt and north of present-day Sudan. Nubia was bordered to the west by the Nile and the Sahara Desert, and to the east by the Red Sea, an area that is now the Nubian Desert. The kingdom of the black-ski
The Hittites were the earliest known settlements in the ancient world they appeared in the Near East during the Neolithic (late Stone Age). The Neolithic city of Çatal Höyük , in Anatolia, was the first important settlement in the world. After her would come other settlements, later converted into c
The steppes are a vast region of grasslands that stretches for 8,000 kilometers from southern Ukraine to Manchuria , in the East. The herdsmen who lived there around 3500 BC were the first humans to ride horses, becoming riders feared by all in the surrounding regions, called steppe nomads . The cl
For centuries it was believed that Troy was nothing but a legendary city , which existed only in the epic poem the Iliad. However, in the second half of the 19th century, a German archaeologist named Heinrich Schliemann succeeded in proving that Troy had actually been a city. The Iliad , by the Gre
Pompeii was a city in southern Italy that flourished during the Roman Empire . In the year 79 AD a nearby volcano, Vesuvius, flooded the city with lava and ash, preserving it for the next 2,000 years. It is one of the most famous archaeological sites in the world . Pompeii was a normal city, withou
The Seleucid dynasty was a Hellenistic empire. The Seleucid dynasty was located in the Middle East, and at its height it had central Anatolia, the Levant, Mesopotamia, Persia, the Pamirs, and parts of Pakistan. The Seleucid kings The Seleucid dynasty is the one that reigned in most of the Asian Em
Religion was essential to the Etruscan people. The Etruscan religion was very different from those of the peoples that surrounded it, Greek and Latin, since it is a religion revealed by a fabulous character, Tages , which had emerged one day from the furrow opened by a farmer from the city of Tarqui
Among the peoples that attract interest, the Etruscans occupy a preferential place for having given rise in the center of the Italian Peninsula, in the region that takes its name from them:Etruria, to a unique civilization, unknown not only origin, but also their language, and there are many doubts
The opportunity for the rise to power of Gaius Marius (157-86 BC) was the war of succession that took place in the kingdom of Numidia, a subject of Rome. This kingdom had been ruled for a long time by King Masinisa (c. 240-149), who had helped Scipio in the battle of Zama. The sons of the late king
Asia pacified, Sulla could now return to Italy. Cinna who had gathered troops to confront him, but with his death, which occurred in a mutiny, the strength of the popular was undone, although he continued with Papirio Carbón and Marios son, Mario the Younger. The decisive battle between Optimates a
Born of the oldest Roman nobility, Pompey (Cn. Pompeius Magnus listen)) made his first weapons under the command of his father, Pompey Strabo, in the Allied War. He later fought against the supporters of Marius, especially in Sicily and Africa, where his victories earned Sulla the nickname Great ( m
Cicero (M. Tullius Cicero 106-43 BC) was born in Arpino about 100 km. southeast of Rome, in a family of equestrian order. He studied law with Mucio Escévola and served in the army participating in the Italicos revolts (90-88 BC). In his first speech he defended Roscio Amerino, attacked by one of S
Caesar was born in Rome, the son of Julius Caesar and Aurelia, he belonged to the Gens Julia, who traced his lineage to the goddess Venus and the Trojan Anchises, parents of Aeneas. • He was Marios nephew-in-law (who was married to Julia, Cesars paternal aunt) and Cinnas son-in-law, since he was ma
Carthage, currently Tunis approximately, was an important city, it was part of a chain of commercial establishments around the Mediterranean founded by Phoenicians from the city of Tire at the end of the 2nd millennium , with commercial purposes and to approach the mining areas of the West. The pro
Submarines, however, were by no means the only danger faced by merchant ships of the English Navy. From the first week of the war, some were sunk or damaged by mines of a new type, with magnetic influence, against which the English still had no response. However, on November 23, a German plane was t
A kingdom What we now know as the land of Georgia was once a kingdom. Georgia is at a crossroads in the world. Located in eastern Eastern Europe and western western Asia, Georgia is located on the shores of the Black Sea below the southern borders of Russia. Such a central location makes Georgia
• LIST The first musical instruments invented by man are certainly percussion instruments, followed by wind instruments. The last, because of their more delicate elaboration, are the string instruments:first the struck string instruments, then those with strings bowed. Of these, the most versati
(Paris, 1621 - Fontainebleau, 1686.) Fourth Prince of Condé. Duke of Enghien until the death of his father, Henri II de Condé. One of the greatest warriors in our history. After being initiated into the administration of a province by assisting his father in the government of Burgundy, he distingui