"[Roman] territory extends for several thousands of Li. It has more than four hundred walled towns. There are several tens of smaller dependent kingdoms. The walls of the towns are made of stone. They have established postal relays at intervals, which are all plastered and whitewashed. There...
Take a look at this map of the Invasion of the Roman Empire. See the Huns and their path? It’s no wonder we’re so admixed. Here’s a map of the Hunnic empire at its peak under Attila between the years 420-469. But that wasn’t the end of the Asian invasions. The Magyars,...
Ch 5. The Fall of the Roman Empire Ch 6. The Dark Ages Ch 7. The Early Middle Ages Ch 8. The Medieval Warm Period Ch 9. The High Middle Ages Ch 10. The Late Middle Ages Ch 11. The Renaissance Ch 12. The Age of Exploration Ch 13. The Reformation Ch 14. The Elizabethan Era ...
The spaces that we debate, analyze, or make claims on behalf of, are very often media products. Similarly, drawing a map includes synthesizing satellite and aerial images as well as images from the ground. Some images are created by optics and some by different sensors that register spectrums...
The result was “Gabriel’s Map: Cartography and corpography in modern war”, which set me off on what is a continuing exploration of bodies in conflict. I’m certain that neither of these essays, let alone the projects they launched, would have happened had it not been for Peter. He ...
The Audience of Latin Historical Works in the First Century BCE in Light of Geographical Descriptions was published in Reading History in the Roman Empire on page 35.
The ancient Egyptians used Sun-dried clay bricks in their famous historical monuments and during the Roman Empire period the use of bricks spread throughout Western Europe, Italy, and Byzantine. Later on, in the 11th century, France also used bricks as a construction material [3]. However, ...
history of trade between them, going back several thousand years to when ships of the Roman Empire along with Arab and African trading vessels, propelled by the southwest monsoon, called at points on the Indian coast on their way to the great ports of Indonesia, Vietnam, and southern China....
of empire, colonialism and race, underlie the unmanning of military aircraft, even while these aspects were purposefully, although, unsuccessfully occluded through the idea that technologies could mitigate political risks. Moreover, unmanned reconnaissance projects were cancelled at the end of the Viet...
Figure 1. Map showing the study area (File credits: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 licence). Key: 1. Algeria; 2. Iran, 3. Iraq; 4. Italy; 5. Afghanistan; 6. Syria. The key locations of the study were specifically chosen to focus on regions where there was past evidence...