Kenneth W. Harl
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Obras de Kenneth W. Harl
Civic Coins and Civic Politics in the Roman East, A.D. 180-275 (Transformation of the Classical Heritage) (1987) 9 copias
Imperial Egypt 1 copia
First Cities of Sumer 1 copia
Mesopotamian Kings and Scribes 1 copia
Hammurabi's Babylon 1 copia
The Middle Kingdom 1 copia
The Collapse of the Bronze Age 1 copia
New Peoples of the Bronze Age 1 copia
Byzantine Orthodox Civilization 1 copia
From Hebrews to Jews 1 copia
Imperial Assyria 1 copia
Attila the Hun - Scourge of God 1 copia
The Persian Empire 1 copia
Introduction to Anatolia 1 copia
The Legend of Troy 1 copia
The Invasion of India 1 copia
Early Germanic Europe 1 copia
Cradles of Civilization 1 copia
The Rise of the Steppe Nomads 1 copia
Steppes and Peoples 1 copia
Lessons of the Peloponnesian War 1 copia
Guide for Coins Commonly found at Anatolian Excavations-BYZANTINE (Ancient Numismatics Series, 7) (2001) 1 copia
Guide for Coins Commonly found at Anatolian Excavations-ROMAN (Ancient Numismatics Series, 8) (2001) 1 copia
Roman principate, 31 BC - 138 AD 1 copia
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Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- cir. 1951-1955
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugares de residencia
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- Educación
- Trinity College (BA|Classics and History, 1973)
Yale University (MA|Hisotry, 1975)
Yale University (MPh|History, 1977)
Yale University (PhD|History, 1978) - Ocupaciones
- classicist
professor - Organizaciones
- American Numismatic Society
Tulane University - Premios y honores
- Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teachers
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- Miembros
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The timescale will challenge many readers, as will the constantly shifting geography. Harl turns from events that affected the ancient Chinese dynasties, to those that impacted on the medieval states that dominated the Middle East, and then shifts to the frontiers of the Eastern Roman Empire and the Christian kingdoms that stood in its wake. But the irresistible strength of the cavalry armies that emerged from the steppes was based on the forbidding climate of Central Asia: an oven in summer, a blizzard in winter and a paradise in spring. The steppes are vast, stretching over 6,000 miles of grassland between the Danube and the Amur. By 3500 bc, the various scattered communities of hunters and sheep herders had domesticated the horse, and soon after developed wheeled ox-carts to carry their families and felt tents with them. The ensuing mobility can be traced by the wide dissemination of Indo-European culture, followed by wave after wave of further invasions, empowered by such steppe inventions as the chariot, the stirrup and, most potent of all, the composite bow and the armoured knight.
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