Ancient World at War, The – Historical Book – Thames & Hudson from Thames & Hudson

Description

In this original survey, a group of distinguished historians and archaeologists discuss major battles and wars from ancient Egypt, the Near East, Greece, Rome, Central Asia, India, China, Korea, Japan, and the Americas. The book ranges in time from 8000BC and the earliest definite evidence for warfare in northern Iraq to the armies of the Aztecs and Incas half a millennium ago, and includes Alexander the Great’s triumphant campaigns against Persia, Hannibal’s conflict with Rome, Caesar’s Gallic Wars, the Han Chinese defeat of the nomadic Xiongnu horsemen and the Inca ruler Atahualpa’s last stand against Pizarro.