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acoup.blog
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions.?As we're going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space as the gladius... |
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solutionslounge.com
For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some 'tribal' peoples raised armies, in contrast to the way that ancient (or later) states raised armies. |
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acoup.blog
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, V) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and second century BC.... |
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acoup.blog
Who were the Romans? How did they understand themselves as a people and 'Roman' as an identity? And what were the implications of that understanding - and perhaps more importantly the underlying reality - for Roman society and the success of the Roman Empire? This is the first part of a series (I, II, III,... |
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