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  1. 5Th Century Bc
    Siege machinery first appeared in the West during the Carthaginian invasion of Sicily in the late-5th century BC, in the form of siege towers and battering rams. After a 50-year hiatus these weapons of war re-appeared in the Macedonian armies of Philip II and Alexander the Great, a period that saw the height of their development in the Ancient World. The experience of warfare with both the Carthaginians during the later-3rd century BC, and Philip V of Macedon during the early-2nd century BC, finally prompted the introduction of the siege tower and the battering ram to the Roman arsenal. This title traces the development and use of these weapons across the whole of this period.
  2. France -- Centuries
    For writers and readers of late 17th‐century France, both the fairy tale's mythic origin and its aesthetic served a particular ideological function. The archetypal storytelling of lower‐class women assimilated the popular oral tradition into élite literary practice so as to obscure the reality of hierarchical social relations. At the same time, the seemingly fantastical aesthetic of the contes de fées none the less served to celebrate the values of the self‐contained social elite of late 17th‐century France, values which are readily visible in characters and descriptions. Only in tales by Perrault and Eustache Le Noble are the protagonists of this first vogue not royalty, and the other writers frequently incorporate the discovery of noble birth as a plot motif. Throughout these fairy tales, lengthy and tedious descriptions of luxurious settings recall (sometimes directly) the French court at Versailles. Given that French aristocrats and the court were experiencing severe economic difficulties at the time, both the protagonists and the settings of these fairy tales suggest that the genre was at least in part a form of compensation or escape from the pressures of the real.
  3. Roman Legion -- Centuries
    To answer problems of poor maneuverability and other phalanx weaknesses, the Roman legion developed a new formation called the manipular system. This is what people see most in Hollywood movies of Roman military scenes. The manipular system is based upon several companies of Roman soldiers ranging in size from 60 Roman soldiers (called Centuries) to between 4000-6000 Roman soldier (called a Legion). The table below will outline the various groups on more detail:
  4. Peloponnesian War -- Centuries
    "History of the Peloponnesian War" is, superficially, merely an account of a war that happened centuries ago, the Peloponnesian War, between Athenas and Sparta. Of course, you might think that the subject is trivial to you. After all, how important can a book like that be?. Well, if you were to think that, you would be enormously mistaken.
  5. Roman Empire -- Centuries
    A major cause of the Roman Empire's decline , after six centuries of world dominance was it's replacement of stone aqueducts by leadpipes for the transport and supply of drinking water. Roman engineers, the best in the world , turned their fellow citizens into neurological cripples.
  6. Trojan War -- Poems
    The Trojan War, which probably dates to around 1200 B.C., is just a piece in a larger puzzle. But if the resulting picture builds on Homer, it differs quite a bit from the impression most readers get from his poems. And "impression" is the right word, because much of the conventional wisdom about the war, from Achilles' heel to Cassandra's warnings, is not in Homer at all.
  7. Pax Romana -- Roman Empire
    Pax Britannica (Latin for "the British Peace", modelled after Pax Romana) refers to a period of British imperialism after the 1815 battle of Waterloo, which led to a period of overseas British expansionism. The term is derived from, during this period, the relative peace in Europe and the British Empire controlling most key naval trade routes and enjoying unchallenged sea power. Britain dominated overseas markets and managed to influence and almost dominate Chinese markets after the Opium Wars.
  8. Sappho -- Poems
    Sappho was a poetess of Ancient Greece. She is thought to have written nine books of poems, although the first written record of her is not dated until approximately the third century BC, nearly a hundred years after she lived. It may be said that in her was born the greatest lyric poetess of all time. By the Middle Ages, all copies were lost.
  9. Celts -- British Isles
    For the centuries after the establishment of trade with the Greeks, the archaeology of the Celts can be followed with greater precision. By the mid-5th century BC the La Tène culture, with its distinctive art style of abstract geometric designs and stylized bird and animal forms, had begun to emerge among the Celts centered on the middle Rhine, where trade with the Etruscans of central Italy, rather than with the Greeks, was now becoming predominant. Between the 5th and 1st centuries BC the La Tène culture accompanied the migrations of Celtic tribes into Eastern Europe and westward into the British Isles.
  10. History of the Netherlands -- Roman Empire
    The present-day territory of the Netherlands has been inhabited since the paleolithic. The historical period sets in with the Roman Empire, as the parts south of the Rhine were included in the province of Gallia Belgica, and later of Germania Inferior. The country was inhabited at the time by various Germanic tribes, and the south was inhabited by Gauls, who merged with newcomers from other Germanic tribes during the migration period. The Salian Franks migrated to Gaul from this region, establishing by the 5th century the powerful Merovingian dynasty.
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