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This is why history is feared and why in modern times there is a resistance to an altered national story. The one that gives me a big belly-laugh is the tale that the British stood alone against the Nazi hordes from late 1940 to the end of 1941 when the Americans arrived late as usual.
Nov 24, 2018. #3. Maki said: So, the Trojan War is one of the most important events in Greek mythology. Many works (most notably the Illiad) talk about this war or its aftermath. Of course, classical Greeks inherited their fascination with this war from the Illiad, but it's clear that there was fascination with the Trojan War even before ...
Aug 21, 2009. #1. Oral History gives us the ability to heard and understand the emotions and experiences of someone who has lived in the past. Through Oral History we gain insight into the delicate workings of the human mind, how people react to situations, and the emotions evoked from such experiences. We can all learn something from the past ...
Nov 27, 2012. #5. It is fascinating to learn the origins of certain cultures, traditions and why different things happened. Also there are many interesting people who lived historically that are far more fascinating to read about than some celebrity biography. History tells us a little of why we are here and why we act a certain way.
Mar 6, 2011. #4. Haha. But anyway, as I'm sure he'll tell you himself^, Ii Naomasa was a samurai general during Japan's Sengoku period. He was considered on of the "four guardians of the Tokugawa," because he was one of Tokugawa Ieyasu's finest generals. He commanded a unit known as the "Red Devils" because of their crimson armor.
May 6, 2013. #6. Kirialax said: To agree with World Focker, Rome's importance is an anachronistic reading of Christian history. While Rome certainly tried to play the game with the big boys (Antioch, Alexandria, and Constantinople) in late antiquity, it was always a secondary player in the debates.
Aug 10, 2024. #2. Probably logistics. Living off of the land limited the campaigning season to those times of the year when food could be found. Carrying food in wagons limited the range that armies could march and that power could be projected. The ability to find food limited the size of armies. Another one was health and sanitation.
Which factors are more important and There are many ways to produce a strong nation. It depends on how you define "strong". It depends on how you define "strong". Medieval society, in western Europe, was extremely inequal, but the ruling classes had great power, did most of the main fighting etc, and yet lived within a strong and vibrant society.
Mar 17, 2019. #1. Introduction. It is too difficult to remodel the detail and the course of all major military and political decisions and operations related to the 262-260 BC Changping Campaign due to the scarcity of ancient works — basically we could only rely on the works of Zhan Guo Ce (戰國策, "Strategies of the Warring States") and ...
Mar 9, 2023. #3. Karri said: I'm guessing it's simply because it's one that has plenty of early written records. Finnish "mythology" for example was written down really only in 1800s, when most of it had already been eradicated by Christianity. At the same time, "Greece" also dominated the Mediterranean for long, and remained an important ...