Who was Archilochus? A Greek poet
Archilochus: a bronze statuette of a Spartan man in armor, from about 500 BC When did Archilochus live? Archilochus was a poet who wrote in the 600s BC. He was [...]
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What is cavalry? Ancient battles
Etruscan image of a Scythian woman riding a horse, ca. 600 BCE When did cavalry get started? Cavalry are soldiers riding horses. The earliest cavalry soldiers were in about 800 [...]
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War and battle in ancient Egypt
Victims of civil war in ancient Egypt. They're bound with ropes and have their heads cut off and placed between their legs. (from the Narmer palette, about 3000 BC) Civil [...]
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Assyrian reliefs – West Asian project
Siege of Nineveh When the Assyrian kings of what is now Iraq and Syria (ancient Mesopotamia) built their great palaces in the 700s and 600s BC, artists carved long stories [...]
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Making Roman weapons – Ancient Rome project
Roman helmet, from the kids at Laurelhurst School, Portland, Oregon Although the Romans did many other things besides fight battles, certainly one of their greatest achievements was the world's first [...]
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History of Gunpowder: Gunpowder in ancient China
History of gunpowder: Fireworks Who invented gunpowder? Like the idea of zero, gunpowder developed gradually over time. In 142 AD, during the Han Dynasty, a man named Wei Boyang was [...]
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Who was Guanti? Chinese god of war
Guanti (Ming Dynasty) What's Guanti's backstory? Like Cheng-Huang, Guanti was a god based on a real man. According to the story, he was born poor and when he was a child he [...]
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Horses and archery – Central Asian warfare
Scythian woman fighting Greeks (Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, ca. 350 BC) Central Asian soldiers were famous for fighting on horseback. Because Central Asian people spent a lot of time on horseback, [...]
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African Warfare – Colonization and Independence
By 1500 AD, in order to defend themselves from Ottoman and European attacks, some African kingdoms were adopting the military techniques of West Asia, India, and Europe. Generally, if you lived closer [...]
