Bronze Age War Chariots
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Bronze Age War Chariots
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Author : Nic Fields
language : en
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Release Date : 2006-01-31
Bronze Age War Chariots written by Nic Fields and has been published by Osprey Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-31 with History categories.
Chariots, the first mobile fighting vehicle, seem to have originated in Mesopotamia in the third millennium BC. The highly mobile two-wheeled war chariot, carrying a driver and an archer armed with a short composite bow, revolutionized military tactics after 1700 BC. This expensive weapon spread throughout the Middle East and is thought to have reached Egypt with the conquering Hyksos. It spread into Asia Minor, Greece, and was known in Northern Europe by 1500 BC. This book covers the evolution of the war chariot throughout the Bronze Age, detailing its design, development and combat history - in particular its fundamental involvement at the battle of Qadesh.
Chariots In War And Art In The Late Bronze Age Aegean
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Author : Seth Button
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Chariots In War And Art In The Late Bronze Age Aegean written by Seth Button and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with categories.
The End Of The Bronze Age
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Author : Robert Drews
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2020-03-31
The End Of The Bronze Age written by Robert Drews and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-31 with History categories.
The Bronze Age came to a close early in the twelfth century b.c. with one of the worst calamities in history: over a period of several decades, destruction descended upon key cities throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, bringing to an end the Levantine, Hittite, Trojan, and Mycenaean kingdoms and plunging some lands into a dark age that would last more than four hundred years. In his attempt to account for this destruction, Robert Drews rejects the traditional explanations and proposes a military one instead.
Did The Kassites Influence The Development Of The Late Bronze Age War And Hunting Chariot
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Author : M. A. Littauer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 196?
Did The Kassites Influence The Development Of The Late Bronze Age War And Hunting Chariot written by M. A. Littauer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 196? with Chariots categories.
Early Greek Warfare
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Author : P. A. L. Greenhalgh
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1973-05-24
Early Greek Warfare written by P. A. L. Greenhalgh and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973-05-24 with History categories.
First published in 1973, this is a study of the literary and archaeological developments in the warfare of early Greece. Dr Greenhalgh considers in particular the military history of the chariot and mounted horse, both as they were represented in poetry and art and as they were used in reality from about 1100 to 500BC. He finds the picture superficially presented by the sources incoherent and often incredible, and attempts a reconstruction which does justice to both tactical and technical possibilities and to the social and economic facts of life in the period. He shoes how the Homeric poems, for example, can be systematically misleading - in part misconceiving the character of the Mycenaean age, and in part conflating with this misconception the conditions of their own time. This illustrated study will be of value to archaeologists, historians of warfare and Homeric specialists; its wider implications will interest social and political historians.
Bronze Age Warfare
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Author : Richard Osgood
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2011-11-08
Bronze Age Warfare written by Richard Osgood and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-08 with History categories.
The Bronze Age, so named because of the technological advances in metalworking and countless innovations in the manufacture and design of tools and weapons, is among the most fascinating periods in human history. Archaeology has taught us much about the way of life, habits and homes of Bronze Age people, but as yet little has been written about warfare. What was Bronze Age warfare like? How did people fight and against whom? What weapons were used? Did they fortify their settlements, and, if so, were these intended as defensive or offensive structures? This detailed and fully illustrated study of warfare in Bronze Age Europe, aims to answer these and many other questions.
Selected Writings On Chariots And Other Early Vehicles Riding And Harness
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Author : Mary Aiken Littauer
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2002
Selected Writings On Chariots And Other Early Vehicles Riding And Harness written by Mary Aiken Littauer and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
This collection of papers is primarily concerned with wheeled transport in antiquity. They shed much light on the construction of the vehicles, the ways their draught animals were harnessed and controlled, and on the uses to which the equipages were put. Ridden animals also feature in this collection of papers.
Chariot
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Author : Arthur Cotterell
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-12-15
Chariot written by Arthur Cotterell and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-15 with History categories.
The chariot changed the face of ancient warfare. First in West Asia and Egypt, then in India and China, charioteers came to dominate the battlefield. Its use as a war machine is graphically recounted in Indian epics and Chinese chronicles. Homer's Iliad tells of the attack on Troy by Greek heroes who rode in chariots. In 326 BC Alexander the Great faced charioteers in northern India, while in 55 BC, on a Kent beach, Julius Caesar was met by British chariots. Because of the danger involved, chariot racing attracted hundreds of thousands of spectators. So enthusiastic were they that the Roman emperor Nero could not resist driving his own ten-horse chariot at the Olympic Games: he fell out but still won the prize. Rivalry between groups of spectators at chariot races often ignited urban riots. In Constantinople, in 532 AD, a three-day disturbance left 30,000 dead.
The End Of The Bronze Age
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Author : Robert Drews
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
The End Of The Bronze Age written by Robert Drews and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with History categories.
The Bronze Age came to a close early in the twelfth century B.C. with one of the worst calamities in history: over a period of several decades, destruction descended upon key cities throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, bringing to an end the Levantine, Hittite, Trojan, and Mycenaean kingdoms and plunging some lands into a dark age that would last more than four hundred years. In his attempt to account for this destruction, Robert Drews rejects the traditional explanations - earthquakes, migrations, drought, systems collapse - and proposes a military one instead. Combining fascinating archaeological facts with vivid descriptions of military tactics, Drews presents the transition from chariot to infantry warfare as the primary cause of the Great Kingdoms' downfall. Late in the thirteenth century B.C. the barbarians who until then had been little cause for concern to the Great Kingdoms, and who had served the kings as mercenary "runners" in support of the chariots, awoke to the fact that en masse they could destroy a chariot army. There followed an orgy of slaughter, looting, and destruction. From the ashes arose the city-states of Greece and the tribal confederacy of Israel, communities that depended on massed formations of infantrymen. In making these arguments, the author uses textual and archaeological evidence to reconstruct what actually happened in the Bronze Age chariot battles, as well as the combat that characterized the Catastrophe.
Bronze Age Military Equipment
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Author : Dan Howard
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2011-01-01
Bronze Age Military Equipment written by Dan Howard and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-01 with History categories.
This book is a fascinating discussion of the development of the military equipment of the earliest organized armies. Dan Howard describes the development of weapons, armor and chariots, how they were made and their tactical use in battle. Spanning from the introduction of massed infantry by the Sumerians (c. 26th century BC) through to the collapse of the chariot civilizations (c. 12th century BC), this is the period of the epic struggles described in the Old Testament and Homer's Iliad, the clashes of mighty empires like those of the Babylonians, Egyptians and Hittites.