Bronze Age War Chariots
Title | Bronze Age War Chariots PDF eBook |
Author | Nic Fields |
Publisher | Osprey Publishing |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2006-01-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781841769448 |
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.
The End of the Bronze Age
Title | The End of the Bronze Age PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Drews |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2020-03-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0691209979 |
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.
Selected Writings on Chariots and Other Early Vehicles, Riding and Harness
Title | Selected Writings on Chariots and Other Early Vehicles, Riding and Harness PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Aiken Littauer |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 776 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9789004117990 |
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.
Chariots in War and Art in the Late Bronze Age Aegean
Title | Chariots in War and Art in the Late Bronze Age Aegean PDF eBook |
Author | Seth Button |
Publisher | |
Pages | 410 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Murder at Mykenai
Title | Murder at Mykenai PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine Mayo |
Publisher | |
Pages | 389 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Agamemnon (Greek mythology) |
ISBN | 9781922077943 |
Menelaos, the youngest son of the High King of Greece, is surrounded by power, intrigue, luxury and incalculable wealth, and should be one of the luckiest people in the world. But he's not. In less than a year, his whole world has disintegrated and he's on the run, trying to escape his father's assassins and skidding ever deeper into danger. Odysseus, his best friend, is the only person who can save him, but Odysseus's great ideas have a tendency to backfire.
Did the Kassites Influence the Development of the Late-Bronze-Age War and Hunting Chariot?
Title | Did the Kassites Influence the Development of the Late-Bronze-Age War and Hunting Chariot? PDF eBook |
Author | M. A. Littauer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 196? |
Genre | Chariots |
ISBN |
Bronze Age Military Equipment
Title | Bronze Age Military Equipment PDF eBook |
Author | Dan Howard |
Publisher | Casemate Publishers |
Pages | 307 |
Release | 2011-11-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1783032839 |
“A very valuable piece of work, providing a splendid overview” of the weapons, armor, shields and chariots used in warfare from 3000 BC to 1200 BC (HistoryOfWar.org). 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. In Bronze Age Military Equipment, Howard provides “an able and readable review that is supported in the text by drawings and sketches, but there is also an excellent full color photographic section that shows replica weapons and armor created in bronze” (Firetrench).