Roman Conquests: Asia Minor, Syria and Armenia
Richard Evans
While conquering Greece and Macedonia the Romans defeated an intervention by the Seleucid Empire, the most powerful of the Hellenistic states founded by Alexander the Great's successors. Soon Roman armies crossed to Asia for the first time to carry the war to the Seleucids. Here they faced one of the most sophisticated armies of the ancient world, evolved from Alexander's all-conquering war machine with the exotic additions of elephants, scythed chariots and heavily armoured cataphract cavalry. The Seleucids also possessed a formidable navy. The Roman army defeated the Seleucids at the epic ba
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Год:
2012
Издательство:
Pen & Sword Military
Язык:
english
Страницы:
192
ISBN 10:
1848849753
ISBN 13:
9781848849754
Файл:
EPUB, 3.70 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2012