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Mike Anderson's Ancient History Blog: Hadrian's Wall - Guest Post
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Mike Anderson's Ancient History Blog. Honoring the Accomplishments of Antiquity. Sunday, February 17, 2013. Hadrian's Wall - Guest Post. This article is a guest post by my friend Geoff Carter, an archaeologist who lives in England. Geoff does research in ancient wood structures and has written about the original wooden fortifications at Hadrian's Wall. I have a link to Geoff's blog on this page under My Blog List -. Hadrian and the North South Divide. It was in wooden ships, built by Celtic shipwrights i...
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Mike Anderson's Ancient History Blog: Edward Gibbon on The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Mike Anderson's Ancient History Blog. Honoring the Accomplishments of Antiquity. Saturday, February 25, 2012. Edward Gibbon on The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Most people exposed to Roman history have heard Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. The first impression made on the reader is a prose style which is stylish and easy to read, unlike most history. Example:. The first of these appears in volume one chapter 5 where he writes:. The guard acted a kingmakers for the first...
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Mike Anderson's Ancient History Blog: November 2014
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Mike Anderson's Ancient History Blog. Honoring the Accomplishments of Antiquity. Sunday, November 30, 2014. The Roman Assault on Carthage and the Role the Great Harbor played in it. The Third Punic War was the inevitable result of treaty that was too restrictive and a long standing feud that couldn't be mitigated. To help you understand the geography involved in this battle, I have constructed the following map which shows the city of Carthage and its critical landmarks. Posted by Mike Anderson. A cothon...
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Mike Anderson's Ancient History Blog: September 2014
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Mike Anderson's Ancient History Blog. Honoring the Accomplishments of Antiquity. Wednesday, September 10, 2014. Social Conflict in the Roman Republic. But ahead, in the not too distant future, stood the destruction of the Republic and no one knew it. A mere thirteen years would pass before the slide would begin. It’s an interesting story of class warfare, the quest for economic equity, and an aging political system. The timeline of those thirteen years has the following entries:. The Roman class system w...
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Mike Anderson's Ancient History Blog: August 2015
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Mike Anderson's Ancient History Blog. Honoring the Accomplishments of Antiquity. Sunday, August 2, 2015. I wrote an article on July 26th 2011 called Roman Battle Tactics Versus the Phalanx, and last week, a reader commented on that post in a very thoughtful and reasoned way. You would not be able to see his comment unless you looked back at the original article, so I decided to post it here. I will have more to add about this subject shortly. Posted as a comment by M. Teague. The Roman legion could fight...
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Mike Anderson's Ancient History Blog: The Inland Navy of the Roman Empire
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Mike Anderson's Ancient History Blog. Honoring the Accomplishments of Antiquity. Wednesday, May 6, 2015. The Inland Navy of the Roman Empire. Old boundary on the Rhine. With rivers as a physical boundary, Rome needed a naval force to protect it: protect merchant traffic, quickly ferry the army to vulnerable locations, and control any adversarial movement on the waterways. Below is a map of the Rhine and Danube Rivers showing where the Roman fleets were located. The Iron Gates are a physical landmark in t...
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Mike Anderson's Ancient History Blog: July 2015
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Mike Anderson's Ancient History Blog. Honoring the Accomplishments of Antiquity. Monday, July 27, 2015. This Blog named one of 10 History Blogs to Follow. Recently, The Ancient History Encyclopedia. Named us one of 10 history blogs to follow. See the following link:. Http:/ etc.ancient.eu/2015/07/22/10-history-blogs-to-follow/. Posted by Mike Anderson. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). History can teach us about the present. Are we progressing or regressing? View my complete profile. The fi...
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Mike Anderson's Ancient History Blog: The Roman Assault on Carthage and the Role the Great Harbor played in it.
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Mike Anderson's Ancient History Blog. Honoring the Accomplishments of Antiquity. Sunday, November 30, 2014. The Roman Assault on Carthage and the Role the Great Harbor played in it. The Third Punic War was the inevitable result of treaty that was too restrictive and a long standing feud that couldn't be mitigated. To help you understand the geography involved in this battle, I have constructed the following map which shows the city of Carthage and its critical landmarks. Posted by Mike Anderson. I am ple...
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Mike Anderson's Ancient History Blog: Articles from The University of Warrick, UK
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Mike Anderson's Ancient History Blog. Honoring the Accomplishments of Antiquity. Saturday, November 8, 2014. Articles from The University of Warrick, UK. I received a note recently from the University of Warrick, UK, asking me to provide a link to one of their journal articles, which introduces an unknown Roman writer named Bryson Arabus. The link to that article follows:. Bryson Arabus - Who was he? A link to the Polanyi article is below;. Posted by Mike Anderson. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Mike Anderson's Ancient History Blog: October 2014
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Mike Anderson's Ancient History Blog. Honoring the Accomplishments of Antiquity. Sunday, October 19, 2014. The Antonine Wall - Guest Post. Started in 142 C.E, the new wall would not be finished until 154 C.E. The Caledonian tribe, immediately to the north, proved to be a constant thorn in the side of those constructing the wall, and their recalcitrance would not be ended by its completion. The garrisons in the forts to its north, as well as those manning the wall, would be under constant ...Subscribe to:...