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The Roman phalanxes would have defeated Alexander by flanking his phalanx. In fact, that is what they did to the Greeks 200 years later and those Greeks were fighting in the Macedonian style. Explain to me how the Alexandrian army would have defeated the Roman legion?
The precise difference between the Romans fighting the Hellenic league in the 320s B.C. compared to the Greeks fighting the Romans 200 years later is, of course, the absence of Alexander. If an objection is made about the Parthians not being able to "follow it up", we can estimate that Alexander would not have had this same problem. Further, by the 320s B.C. Rome still had only a handful of victories outside Latium. Alexander therefore would have probably had the advantage of more skilled men accustomed to fighting in different theaters of war.
I don't think it was the author of the article who came up with that idea, but the book he's covering. And here's one important tidibit:
So, many countries which once formed part of the Spanish empire and seem to have little historical connection with the UK, such as Costa Rica, Ecuador and El Salvador, make the list because of the repeated raids they suffered from state-sanctioned British sailors.
So yeah, "invaded" is probably defined pretty loosely.
While I don't think it's as easy as saying a>b, b>c, therefore a>c, it is interesting to note that even after the Republic had achieved greatness, it still lost to the Parthians (Persians) at Carhae in 53 B.C. Of course, Alexander rammed through a Persian force of 120,000 some 250+ years earlier. Different times, and different situations, yes, but perhaps a face off between the two great empires could have gone either way.
“The city was renamed Volgograd in 1961 as part of the Soviet Union's rejection of dictator Joseph Stalin's personality cult.”I find it peculiar that the Soviets wanted to curb Soviet enthusiasm in the 1960s.
That would be a “sugary knife” or a “golden cross” or [insert the correct phrase to indicate a burden one has to bear in which the benefits outweigh the cost].
Well we're back! Seems like my sites were down for a while. That should be the last time I run out of bandwidth for the month in a while.
I guess something along the line of navel-gazing, and you know the rest. I can see how it might be considered to be like that…sort of a way of stroking the ego of one's profession.
Last I checked, I was at about 98% of my bandwidth's capacity. I was thinking of turning some of my other sites offline completely (temporarily) so as to save bandwidth for my most important sites, but that would only prolong the inevitable by another day or two. It would also make me feel too much like Scotty: “Mr. Scott, divert more power to warp engines!” “I'm tryin' captain!”
Funny…I was anticipating you saying something else, and me agreeing that while historiography has its place, straight history is where it's at (more enjoyable, more important, more worthy of our time. Historiography can be very helpful, but it's really only helpful if you already have a good grasp of history.
Here's a description of historiography which is rather straightforward, and in a nutshell:"...rather than basing itself on a systematic analysis of those textual and other remains of the past that historians traditionally call 'primary sources', historiography explores the tendencies, developments and sometimes unarticulated assumptions that inform historians' writings."Jonathan Woolfson, Palgrave Advances in Renaissance Historiography
Well I am rapidly eating through more bandwidth. I am at 110 gb out of 130 gb max for the month. Although I expect traffic to decrease dramatically after today on my inauguration site, it might just tip the scales and put my sites offline until the end of the month. If so, I will post updates over at Christian Legacies. Scout, unfortunately it does not look like many people have clicked on your link. Admittedly, there are many links on my site, so they might get lost in it all. I dunno.
I know that none of the 5 Germans I work with knew the date and one had to look it up online because he thought I was BS'ing him. 😀
Is that something they would have celebrated/felt happy with? I'm just asking because I am unsure of modern-day Germans' attitudes toward their past ambitions - even pre-Nazi era.
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