The Coming of the Greeks. Indo-European Conquests in the Aegean and the Near East

Near Eastern History apparently waged a long war against the Dasyus, dark-skinned natives, and after defeating them became a dom ...

The Coming of the Greeks there are, quite simply, "the people of Hatti." The scribes of course had names for languages, and so m ...

Near Eastern History When, at the beginning of this century, the great kingdom centered at Boghazkoy was discovered, it was call ...

The Coming of the Greeks Iron Age, did the Hittite nation suddenly die out? Such are the questions that arise if one accepts the ...

Near Eastern History striking features of the document (although it has seldom been remarked) is the absence of any ethnic animo ...

The Coming of the Greeks that by 1190 B.C.—when the Hittite Empire ended—Hattic was only a language of ritual and ancient texts, ...

Near Eastern History of a Hittite tribe or nation, we need not even try to imagine how a Hittite tribal assembly might have work ...

The Coming of the Greeks Hatti were personally bound to the king, and he to them, by formidable oaths. The military oath was tak ...

Near Eastern History pinus. Although the king would designate a member of his family (or of the queen's family) as his successor ...

The Coming of the Greeks There we see that for the most part "nations" did not yet play a role in history. Volkerwanderungen are ...

Near Eastern History centuries are almost totally obscure. When the darkness lifts, we find imperial kingships in Haiti and in M ...

FIVE The New Warfare Horses What contributed most to the chaos of the period was the ad- vent of a weapon that transformed warfa ...

The New Warfare horses seldom stood more than thirteen hands high, about the size of a large pony.' Just as the onager and the a ...

The Coming of the Greeks Near East during the third millennium. 4 Because the onager was spirited and had a nasty disposition to ...

The New Warfare drawn by horses or other equids. Why this was so is a point that must be clearly understood. The earliest wheele ...

The Coming of the Greeks larger than an onager or an ass) was unable to draw efficiently a load of more than a quarter of a ton. ...

The New Warfare 2 Copper model of two-wheeled cart, from Tell Agrab. 3 Detail of "Ur Standard. 79 ...

The Coming of the Greeks from Nor§untepe, in eastern Anatolia, and from Tal-i-Iblis, in south central Iran, in chalcolithic and ...

The New Warfare dence in the graves of the South Russian Timber-Grave Cul- ture, spread over the open steppe between the Dnieper ...

The Coming of the Greeks to suggest that the horse was then an article of food," 20 but it is likely that the builders of Troy v ...