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By the Spear - Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Empire by Ian Worthington
Category: History | Series: Ancient Warfare and Civilization Ser.
Alexander the Great, arguably the most exciting figure from antiquity, waged war as a Homeric hero and lived as one, conquering native peoples and territories on a superhuman scale. From the time he invaded Asia in 334 to his death in 323, he expanded the Macedonian empire from Greece in the west to Asi ...Show more
By the Spear: Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Empire by Ian Worthington
Category: History | Series: Ancient Warfare and Civilization
Alexander the Great, arguably the most exciting figure from antiquity, waged war as a Homeric hero and lived as one, conquering native peoples and territories on a superhuman scale. From the time he invaded Asia in 334 to his death in 323, he expanded the Macedonian empire from Greece in the west to Asi ...Show more
IN GODS PATH THE ARAB CONQUESTS & THE CREATION OF AN ISLAMIC EMOIRE by HOYLAND ROBERT G
Category: History | Series: Ancient Warfare and Civilization Ser.
In just over a hundred years--from the death of the Mohammed in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750--the followers of the Prophet swept across the whole of the Middle East, North Africa, and Spain. The conquered territory was larger than the Roman Empire at its greatestexpansion, and it ...Show more
Mastering the West: Rome and Carthage at War by Dexter Hoyos (Retired Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient History, University of Sydney)
Category: History | Series: Ancient Warfare and Civilization
To say the Punic Wars (264-146 BC) were a turning-point in world history is a vast understatement. These vicious battles pitted two flourishing Mediterranean powers against one another, leaving one an unrivaled giant and the other a literal pile of ash. To later observers, a collision between these civi ...Show more
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