named after the influential Spring and Autumn Annals. In this period, local military leaders used by the Zhou began to assert their power and vie for hegemony. The situation was aggravated by the invasion of other peoples from the northwest, such as the Qin, forcing the Zhou to move their...
When in the 3rd century bce the empire began to be threatened by the barbarian peoples of eastern and central Europe, Illyricum became a principal military bulwark of Rome and its culture in the ancient world. Several of the most-outstanding emperors of the late Roman Empire were of Illyrian ...
sacked and burned Rome in 390 B.C., the Romans rebounded under the leadership of the military hero Camillus, eventually gaining control of the entire Italian peninsula by 264 B.C. Rome then fought a series of wars known as thePunic Warswith Carthage, a powerful city-state in northern ...
The Art of War The Mystery of Sun Tzu For generations, scholars have been trying to figure out who Sun Tzu was–if he existed at all. Legend has it that he was a Chinese military leader in an era known as the Spring and Autumn Period. This was a time of great turmoil in China, ...
In 67 BC, Pompey, a Roman military leader and politician who had fought against Marius’s supporters in Africa, Sicily and Hispania, put an end to piracy in the Mediterranean and was in charge of leading the war against Mithridates. Meanwhile, his rival Gaius Julius Caesar, taking advantage ...
introduction.” History has proven over and over again, an increase in food production allows for an increase in population and a larger population can be converted to military force. One ancient writer noted that if the vast number of Slav tribes ever united no nation could resist them. ...
the opening of the Grande Canale Tang (618 to 907 years) 627 --649 years of Zhenguan In the early seventh Century, Song Xan Gan Bbu unified Tibet At the end of eighth Century early millet Christian dragon regime in Bohai during the same period, Nanzhao leader Khun borom with six Chao ...
strengthen their defenses against Inner Asian threats through military missions and intelligence. Despite providing a good defense against attack, the Great Wall could not stop all invaders. In 1644 AD, the Manchu Qing broke right through the gates of the Shanhai Pass and overthrew the Ming ...
ravage Gaul. Julian, however, soon revealed himself to be a great military leader by winning several well-fought campaigns between 356 and 361, most notably at Strasbourg in 357, and by restoring approximately 70 plundered villages. His abandonment, in 358, of the district of Toxandria, ...
87) – an era of vast military development. Emperor Wudi conquered parts of modern Kyrgyzstan, Vietnam and Korea and vanquished the Huns to the Gobi desert. This seventh Emperor of the Han dynasty moved an approximate two million Chinese to the northwestern part of the empire to ensure coloniz...