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In Homer's Iliad, two very important vehicles are constantly mentioned. These are ships and chariots. The ships perform exclusively a transport function. No naval battles with their participation take place. The army of the Achaeans reaches the shores of the Troas precisely on ships. Moreover, these ships themselves

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The interest shown by VO readers to the topic of the Trojan War is very indicative. Obviously, studying it in the fifth grade of a general education school as still very young children, they … well, take out little for themselves even from the text of the poem in a prose retelling, not to mention the verses. Yes, and at the university

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I read all the materials by V. Shpakovsky about weapons and armor of the ancient Aegean world and thought it would be nice to tell about other interesting moments related to the history and culture of this region of the planet. And, in particular, about the Minoan culture, the predecessor of the warlike time of the Achaeans and

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So, the invasion of the "Sea Peoples" was a massive migration of peoples, somewhat similar to today's exodus of Syrians and Africans to Europe. Only now German schoolchildren are changing their bedding there (they themselves are too unhappy for this!), And volunteers are cleaning up the trash left behind, and then

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The very origin of this term has not been established, but it is known that already in 1898 it was already used in the reports of the London police. A popular but unproven version says that there lived, they say, in the 19th century such a person as Patrick Hooligen, Irish by birth and an obvious sociopath. AND

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“The beginning of the story of how God granted the victory to the sovereign Grand Duke Dmitry Ivanovich after Don over the nasty Mamai and how Orthodox Christianity - the Russian land raised up the Russian land with the prayers of the Most Pure Mother of God and Russian miracle workers, and put the godless Hagarians to shame”

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What ships did ancient Troy have? The question - which interested a lot of VO visitors. And what did the ships of that era look like? After all, it is obvious that the famous Greek triremes, known to us from black and red-lacquered Greek ceramics, have nothing to do with the Trojan period of Greek history

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Needless to say - the British were lucky in terms of archeology, and how! Here you have Stonehenge, and menhirs, and ancient burial mounds, and the finds are one more valuable than the other. Among them are unique helmets of worldly horsemen, and barbarian kings, swords made of Damascus steel and silver brooches of Roman legionnaires, and only about

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The life of the Indians - the indigenous peoples of North America, is the subject of study of many researchers: ethnographers, historians, culturologists and many others. This is not surprising, since the culture, customs, traditions, beliefs of Indian tribes are shrouded in an aura of secrets, mysteries, and, at times, are not subject to

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So the series of articles on the weapons of the Trojan War era has come to an end and … somehow even unusually a little. Something seems to be missing? At one time I wanted to write a book about this all - why, by the way, the cycle was born so quickly that much was already ready, but in one of the most famous publishers I

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And it so happened that several VO visitors turned to me with a request to tell me about the armor and weapons of Indian warriors of past eras. It turned out that there is enough information for this. Moreover, not even for one material. And besides, a number of photographs of the original Indian weapons are not

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Almost as early in India, they began to tame and use elephants in combat practice. It was from here that they spread first throughout the ancient world, and in India itself they were used in battles until the middle of the 19th century! The elephant is a very intelligent and extremely strong animal capable of

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Well, many - not one or two, but many VO readers - do not want to part with the military culture of Mycenaean Greece and the legendary Troy. However, in Russia, there are almost more mysterious cultures of the Bronze Age than somewhere “out there” in the East or South. For example, we say “stone age”, “culture

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“Junnar-grad stands on a stone rock, not fortified by anything, fenced off by God. And the way to that mountain day, one person walks: the road is narrow, it is impossible for two to pass "(Afanasy Nikitin." Walking across the three seas. "

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Not so long ago, on the pages of VO I read the material "Reburial in One Night" and immediately remembered: and in fact I am almost a witness of one very interesting historical event, which today, of course, everyone seems to know about, but … in details and in faces it looks it's much more interesting. This is about

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Before talking about how the Bronze Age in Europe was replaced by the Iron Age, it is necessary to "transfer" to the territory of … Ancient Assyria - a kingdom that is considered the world's first empire. Naturally, it was surrounded by certain states and with one of them - the state of Urartu, we in

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Why does a dog wag its tail? Because it is smarter than the tail. If the tail were smarter, it would wag the dog. (Larry Beinhart. "Wagging the Dog: A Novel") PR affects the masses. Yes, but what is the place and role

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West, East - Everywhere the same trouble, the Wind is equally cold. (To a friend who went to the West) Matsuo Basho (1644 - 1694). Translated by V. Markova. Those who have read the novel by James Clavell "Shogun" or have seen its adaptation, undoubtedly, have noticed that the main idea of this movie is the clash of two cultures

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Diodorus drew attention to the great length of the Celtic swords, especially compared to the much shorter Greek or Roman swords. At the same time, judging by their findings in 450 - 250 years. BC, the blades of Celtic swords reached about 60 cm, that is, no longer than those that were at that time

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For the sons of the Golden South (stand up!), For the price of years lived! If you cherish something, you sing about If you value something, you stand on that »Rudyard Joseph Kipling) When we want to learn something, then … it should be remembered that success is in an integrated approach. Otherwise

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Any fortification is interesting and instructive in its own way. Why did people build them? To defend yourself from enemy attacks, sit behind high and thick walls and … after the shame of enemies, continue a peaceful life. As a rule, fortresses clearly show the ingenuity of our ancestors

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For our pagan nurses, For babbling infant days (Their speech was our speech, Until we knew ours) ("By birthright" by Rudyard Joseph Kipling) In European countries, 67-marker haplotypes of haplogroup R1a1 were analyzed, which helped to determine the approximate direction migration of this group of people

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If we turn to the ancient Russian chronicles, we learn that our ancestors lived in an environment of enduring holiness. "God's regiment" in heaven helped Alexander Nevsky to defeat the Germans. "Bright youths" (innocently killed Boris and Gleb) helped the Russian army on the Kulikovo field, and so on. And in the same

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“And Abraham said concerning Sarah his wife, She is my sister. And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.”Genesis 20: 2 Actually, I don’t like to rewrite articles taken from somewhere. Usually I do it differently. I select material from various articles and monographs, then work on it. But in this case, the work will be

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In ancient times, the fist and nails and teeth were weapons. After the stones and branches of the trees of the dense forest … Later still a person learned the power of bronze with iron. Only first bronze was used, and later iron. Titus Lucretius Kar "On the nature of things" Archaeologists can say lucky. Celtic helmets are found in abundance. Their

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Your lot is the Burden of the Whites! But this is not a throne, but labor: Oiled clothes, And aches, and itching. Roads and moorings Set up your descendants, Put your life on it - And lie down in a foreign land! (The burden of the whites. R.Kipling) When was the last time riders, dressed in chain mail and helmets sparkling in the sun, participated in a battle? Who

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There is a widespread opinion that the repressions of 1937 weakened the army, there were no experienced officers (Volkogonov D.A. Triumph and tragedy / Political portrait of I.V. Stalin. In 2 books. M .: Publishing house APN, 1989 , Book 1 Part 1. P.11-12), but discipline has always been at its best in our army. But

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But you know yourself: the senseless rabble is changeable, rebellious, superstitious, easily betrayed to empty hope, obedient to instant suggestion, For truth is deaf and indifferent, And it feeds on fables. (Boris Godunov. A.S. Pushkin) Panfilov heroes, the essence of which is that

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The transition from the domination of knights in forged armor, riding powerful and similarly "armored" horses, to relatively light cavalry, armed with pistols and swords, occurred in less than a century. Let's remember the Hundred Years War. It began in the era of "combined

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Where did the most famous battle of the ancient world take place and when was it? The choice is not easy, because at that time there were a lot of them, and, nevertheless, the answer seems to be the following: this is the Battle of Kadesh! why? Yes, simply because it is not only ancient texts that tell about this battle, but also

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In his work Ancient Greece and Rome in Wars, Peter Connolly often refers to ancient authors and, in particular, to Polybius. And he, in his report on the events that preceded the battle of Telamon, reports that the Gauls had 20,000 cavalry in the army and many more chariots. By the way, this

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Carry this proud Burden - You will be rewarded with the Naggers of the commanders And the cries of wild tribes: "What do you want, damned, Why confuse the minds? Why lead us to the light From the sweet Egyptian Darkness!" ("Burden of the Whites" R. Kipling) Everything will be as we want. In case of various troubles, We have a machine gun "Maxim"

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What was the greatest battle in the past? Ask about it in India, and you will be answered: of course, the battle in the field of Kuru or Kurukshetra. There, everyone knows about this battle and everything connected with this event, because the study of the poem "Mahabharata" (The Story of the Great Battle of the Descendants of Bharata) is included in the school

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Man began to defend himself for a long, long time, when the weapon as such was not yet in sight. Man had to defend himself from weapons from the moment the weapon itself appeared. Simultaneously with the development of weapons for the offensive, weapons began to develop for protection: the protection of a person, his

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The power of the great Rome, who created the first empire in Europe, which existed for such a long time, overshadowed for historians the fate of many other peoples who lived in Italy "before Rome" and "simultaneously with Rome." Meanwhile, the culture of these peoples largely influenced Rome. A fresco from Paestum. Highly

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The division into different types of troops in the army, which began under Henry VIII, continued after his death. The English historian K. Blair at the beginning of the 17th century singled out six types of English warriors in armor and weapons: 1. Heavy Cavalry - wore three-quarter armor, D. Paddock and D. Edge

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Ask the first person you meet on the street what he knows world religions, and he is unlikely to give you an answer to this, in essence, a simple question. Well, first of all, he won't tell you Shinto, and Shinto is the world's religion. Well, and then there will be an outright confusion with Orthodoxy and

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Probably, people will never stop dreaming of a time machine until they invent it. Why? Yes, because I really want to know how it was then. And not just find out, but also compare with how it is now. Better or worse, we have become richer or poorer and, most importantly - if "yes", then in

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In the first material on the history of military affairs of the peoples of the Apennine Peninsula, the Samnites were discussed, since the author thought that their influence on the military affairs of Rome was more significant. It is clear that it was necessary to touch on the Etruscans, about whose military organization only two are given in the same Wikipedia

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No, you haven't guessed. We are not talking about clay pots, into which the army, besieging a castle or an enemy fortress, sent their natural needs, and then this "grace of the womb" was thrown on the heads of the defenders. Yes, in the summer, and especially in the heat, it was a terrible weapon. But it will be about