The Age Of Empires

Author : Robert Aldrich
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780500775301

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The critical story of thirteen empires, showing their key role in the foundation of today’s global civilization. For over five hundred years, empires have been a feature of the political landscape, and today, many contemporary conflicts resonate with issues tied to colonial conquest and the uneasy situations they produced. Empires evoke potent images: Henry Morton Stanley, David Livingstone, and the gallery of colonial explorers; the Spanish conquistadors’ quest for gold and silver; and the Dutch heritage of trade in the East Indies. These legacies still pose major issues for historians who study their key role in the foundation of today’s global civilization. The Age of Empires frames the era of empires with maps of explorations, chronologies of voyages, records of settlers and administrators, the balance sheets of commerce, and other records that made up the Age of Empires. This account incorporates research from across the globe and vivid illustrations to tell a story full of conflict, cruelty, great journeys, and influence.

Author : Oded Lipschits
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781646021734

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Storage jars of many shapes and sizes were in widespread use in the ancient world, transporting and storing agricultural products such as wine and oil, crucial to agriculture, economy, trade and subsistence. From the late 8th to the 2nd century BCE, the oval storage jars typical of Judah were often stamped or otherwise marked: in the late 8th and early 7th century BCE with lmlk stamp impressions, later in the 7th century with concentric circle incisions or rosette stamp impressions, in the 6th century, after the fall of Jerusalem, with lion stamp impressions, and in the Persian, Ptolemaic and Seleucid periods (late 6th–late 2nd centuries BCE) with yhwd stamp impressions. At the same time, several ad hoc systems of stamp impressions appeared: “private” stamp impressions were used on the eve of Sennacherib’s campaign, mwṣh stamp impressions after the destruction of Jerusalem, and yršlm impressions after the establishment of the Hasmonean state. While administrative systems that stamped storage jars are known elsewhere in the ancient Near East, the phenomenon in Judah is unparalleled in its scale, variety and continuity, spanning a period of some 600 years without interruption. This is the first attempt to consider the phenomenon as a whole and to develop a unified theory that would explain the function of these stamp impressions and shed new light on the history of Judah during six centuries of subjugation to the empires that ruled the region—as a vassal kingdom in the age of the Assyrian, Egyptian, and Babylonian empires and as a province under successive Babylonian, Persian, Ptolemaic, and Seleucid rule.

Author : James Mecham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1999-10-27
Category : Microsoft Age of empires
ISBN : 0761519068

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Age of Empires II by James Mecham Pdf

Thorough analysis of all civilizations Detailed strategy for optimizing unit effectiveness Complete descriptions of all cheats and taunts Comprehensive unit sheets In-depth military formations tactics Trade route maps

Author : Doug Radcliffe,Paul Schuytema
Publisher : Sybex
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Age of Empires (Game)
ISBN : 0782128599

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Age of Empires II by Doug Radcliffe,Paul Schuytema Pdf

Age of Empires II is one of the most successful PC games of the year with more than 2 million copies sold. This comprehensive walkthrough for the single-player games provides hardcore multiplayer strategies targeted at both newbies and Age II's rabid multiplayer following. It details stats and strategies for new civilizations, technologies and units. Comes with a color poster.

Author : Mark H. Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1999-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0735605130

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Microsoft Age of Empires II by Mark H. Walker Pdf

This latest edition to the Inside Moves series shows readers all the strategy gambits and tricks for winning Microsoft Age of Empires II. A historical real-time strategy game, Age of Empires shows gamers how to not only survive but thrive in the Middle Ages.

Author : Francis Joannès
Publisher : Edinburgh History of the Scott
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0748617566

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The Age of Empires by Francis Joannès Pdf

This is a concise introduction to the history of the ancient Near East during the last millennium bc: Phoenicia, Palestine, the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian empires, the Persian Achaemenid empire, the empire of Alexander, and the vast Persian Seleucid empire founded by Seleucus around 300 bc and defeated by Pompey for Rome in 64 bc. The book focuses on political history, on the sources and shifts of power and the individuals who wielded it. It also introduces the student to the principal aspects of the religious, social and economic history of the region.The narrative is succinct, backed up by summary tables and maps, and enlivened by lengthy quotations from contemporary documents. The latter are frequently used to illustrate specific case studies. The book ends with a chronology and glossary, as well as an adapted further reading list.

Author : Doug Radcliffe,Michael Rymaszewski
Publisher : Sybex
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-21
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0471786152

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Age of Empires III by Doug Radcliffe,Michael Rymaszewski Pdf

This exclusive, official strategy guide, written with the full cooperation and support of Ensemble Studios and Microsoft Game Studios, features: Strategies and tips straight from the game's creators Expert analysis of each civilization's strengths and weaknesses Detailed military and economic strategies In-depth statistics for everything in the game Step-by-step walkthrough of the single-player campaign Hardcore multiplayer tactics for every game mode

Author : Sir John Bagot Glubb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : Geopolitics
ISBN : 0851581277

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The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival by Sir John Bagot Glubb Pdf

Author : Emma Rothschild
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691156125

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The Inner Life of Empires by Emma Rothschild Pdf

The birth of the modern world as told through the remarkable story of one eighteenth-century family They were abolitionists, speculators, slave owners, government officials, and occasional politicians. They were observers of the anxieties and dramas of empire. And they were from one family. The Inner Life of Empires tells the intimate history of the Johnstones--four sisters and seven brothers who lived in Scotland and around the globe in the fast-changing eighteenth century. Piecing together their voyages, marriages, debts, and lawsuits, and examining their ideas, sentiments, and values, renowned historian Emma Rothschild illuminates a tumultuous period that created the modern economy, the British Empire, and the philosophical Enlightenment. One of the sisters joined a rebel army, was imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle, and escaped in disguise in 1746. Her younger brother was a close friend of Adam Smith and David Hume. Another brother was fluent in Persian and Bengali, and married to a celebrated poet. He was the owner of a slave known only as "Bell or Belinda," who journeyed from Calcutta to Virginia, was accused in Scotland of infanticide, and was the last person judged to be a slave by a court in the British isles. In Grenada, India, Jamaica, and Florida, the Johnstones embodied the connections between European, American, and Asian empires. Their family history offers insights into a time when distinctions between the public and private, home and overseas, and slavery and servitude were in constant flux. Based on multiple archives, documents, and letters, The Inner Life of Empires looks at one family's complex story to describe the origins of the modern political, economic, and intellectual world.

Author : Paul Puschmann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350179752

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A Cultural History of Marriage in the Age of Empires by Paul Puschmann Pdf

During the age of empires (1800–1900), marriage was a key transition in the life course worldwide, a rite of passage everywhere with major cultural significance. This volume presents an overview of the period with essays on Courtship and Ritual; Religion, State and Law; Kinship and Social Networks; the Family Economy; Love and Sex; the Breaking of Vows; and Representations of Marriage. Using this framework, this volume explores global trends in marriage. In nineteenth-century Western Europe, marriage was increasingly regarded as the only way to reach happiness and self-fulfilment. In the United States former slaves obtained the right to marry, leading to a convergence in marriage patterns between the black and white populations. In Latin America, marriage remained less common, but marriage rates were nevertheless on the rise. In African and Asian societies, European colonial powers tried to change indigenous marriage customs like polygamy and arranged marriages, but had limited success. Across the globe, in a time of turbulent political and economic change, marriage and the family remained crucial institutions, the linchpins of society that they had been for centuries.

Author : Myles Osborne,Susan Kingsley Kent
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317514800

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Africans and Britons in the Age of Empires, 1660-1980 by Myles Osborne,Susan Kingsley Kent Pdf

Africans and Britons in the Age of Empires, 1660-1980 tells the stories of the intertwined lives of African and British peoples over more than three centuries. In seven chapters and an epilogue, Myles Osborne and Susan Kingsley Kent explore the characters that comprised the British presence in Africa: the slave traders and slaves, missionaries and explorers, imperialists and miners, farmers, settlers, lawyers, chiefs, prophets, intellectuals, politicians, and soldiers of all colors. The authors show that the oft-told narrative of a monolithic imperial power ruling inexorably over passive African victims no longer stands scrutiny; rather, at every turn, Africans and Britons interacted with one another in a complex set of relationships that involved as much cooperation and negotiation as resistance and force, whether during the era of the slave trade, the world wars, or the period of decolonization. The British presence provoked a wide range of responses, reactions, and transformations in various aspects of African life; but at the same time, the experience of empire in Africa – and its ultimate collapse – also compelled the British to view themselves and their empire in new ways. Written by an Africanist and a historian of imperial Britain and illustrated with maps and photographs, Africans and Britons in the Age of Empires, 1660-1980 provides a uniquely rich perspective for understanding both African and British history.

Author : Justin C. Vovk
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 643 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781938908606

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Imperial Requiem by Justin C. Vovk Pdf

Augusta Victoria, Mary, Alexandra, and Zita were four women who were born to rule. In Imperial Requiem, Justin C. Vovk narrates the epic story of four women who were married to the reigning monarchs of Europe's last empires during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using a diverse array of primary and secondary sources, letters, diary entries, and interviews with descendants, Vovk provides an in-depth look into the lives of four extraordinary women who stayed faithfully at their husbands' sides throughout the cataclysm of the First World War and the tumultuous years that followed. At the centers of these four great monarchies were Augusta Victoria, Germany's revered empress whose unwavering commitment to her bombastic husband made her a national icon; Mary, whose Cinderella story and immense personal strength made her the soul of the British monarchy through some of its greatest crises; Alexandra, the ill-fated tsarina who helped topple the Russian monarchy through her ineffective rule; and Zita, the resolute empress of Austria whose story of loss and exile captivated the world's attention for seven decades. Imperial Requiem shares the fascinating story of four princesses who married for love, graced imperial thrones, and watched as their beloved worlds were torn apart by war, revolution, heartache, and loss.

Author : Jeppe Mulich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108489720

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In a Sea of Empires by Jeppe Mulich Pdf

A history of imperial competition, colonial cooperation, and revolutionary currents in the maritime borderlands of the early nineteenth-century Caribbean.

Author : Stefan Berger,Alexei Miller
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789633860168

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Nationalizing Empires by Stefan Berger,Alexei Miller Pdf

The essays in Nationalizing Empires challenge the dichotomy between empire and nation state that for decades has dominated historiography. The authors center their attention on nation-building in the imperial core and maintain that the nineteenth century, rather than the age of nation-states, was the age of empires and nationalism. They identify a number of instances where nation building projects in the imperial metropolis aimed at the preservation and extension of empires rather than at their dissolution or the transformation of entire empires into nation states. Such observations have until recently largely escaped theoretical reflection.

Author : Charles Melville
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780755633807

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Safavid Persia in the Age of Empires by Charles Melville Pdf

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw the establishment of the new Safavid regime in Iran. Along with reuniting the Persian lands under one rule, the Safavids initiated the radical transformation of the religious landscape by introducing Imami Shi'ism as the official state faith and in this as in other ways, laying the foundations of Iran's modern identity. In this book, leading scholars of Iranian history, culture and politics examine the meaning of the idea of Iran in the Safavid period by examining contemporary experiences of both insiders and outsiders, asking how modern scholarship defines the distinctive features of the age. While sometimes viewed as a period of decline from the high points of classical Persian literature and the visual arts of preceding centuries, the chapters of this book demonstrate that the Safavid era was nevertheless a period of great literary and artistic activity in the realms of both secular and theological endeavour. With the establishment of comparable polities across western, southern and central Asia at broadly the same time, the book explores some of the literary and political interactions with Iran's Ottoman, Mughal and Uzbek neighbours. As the volume and frequency of European merchants and diplomats visiting Safavid Persia increased, especially in the seventeenth century, and as more Iranians recorded their own travel experiences to surrounding Muslim lands, the Safavid period is the first in which we can document and explore the contours of Iran's place in an expanding world, and gain insights into how Iranians saw themselves and others saw them.