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Ancient Wars
The Ancient period is generally accepted as being 600 BCE to 500 CE, before which was the Archaic period, and after which began the Medieval period. However as there is not an Archaic Wars category, it is acceptable to post pre-500 BCE military questions in this area.
1,657 Questions
What happened to the city of Troy around 1250 according to the writing of Homer?
It was destroyed by Greeks who burned the city to the ground.
Where did Pheidippides run from to warn Athens of a Persian attack?
Nowhere. Athens sent Pheidippides to run to Sparta to summon them to help fight the Persians. The 120 mile return trip killed him.
What is the Augustus Westland 139?
The Agusta Westland 139 is a medium sized twin engine helicopter, built jointly by Italian manufacturer Agusta and the British Westland company.
What is an ancient history Era?
A period of time that encompasses a beginning and an end to a cycle or event.
What armies were in the battle of thermopylae?
A dozen Greek city-states and the Persian expeditionary force.
What is the Dorian invasion on the Mycenaean culture?
There is a blank page in Greece between 1200 and 1050 BCE between the fading Mycenaean civilisation and the beginning of Doric cultural traces. So whether the Dorians directly replaced the Mycenaeans is unknown. Or was ther some other invader who destroyed the Mycenaean culture and the Dorians moved in later. We don't really know, and little concrete evidence emerged from these dark ages for another three centuries.
What was happening in the Artemisia Strait during the battle of Thermopylae?
Three days of naval skirmishing which the Greeks lost. Their closure of the Thermopylae pass was designed to bring on a naval battle so that the inferior Greek fleet could have a chance of defeating the Persian one and so eliminate the Persian amphibious threat to the Greek cities, and also expose the Persian water supply line on which they were dependent.
After this failure, they tried again in the strait of Salamis and won. Unable to support all their army with no sea supply, the Persias had to send half their army home, and the following year the Greeks were able to leave their cities now that the amphibious threat was eliminated, concentrate at Plataia, and defeat the depleted Persian army.
Did Egypt actually won war between the hittites?
It actually fought a war against the Hittites (major idecisive batte of Kadesh 1274 BCE). The result of 20 years of war was a standoff, culminating in a peace treaty, cemented by royal inter-marriage, which lasted for a century.
What is the name of the battle in 490 BC that the Greeks were defeated by Persia?
It was not the Greeks but the Greek city-state of Eretria.
The Persians then switched to Athens which defeated them at Marathon.
What was proposed in the wilmot proviso?
That all the territory acquired by the USA from Mexico should be free soil.
What does ACE stand for in stating year e.g. 109 A.C.E.?
CE stands for "common era" in most dates I have never seen ACE before. Perhaps Ad Common Era?
Addition:The usual terminology is:
BCE Before the Common Era
CE The Common Era
This terminology allows non-Christians to observe a standardised way of counting the years without having to have the Christian Lord pushed down their throats - a reasonable concession on our part as they outnumber us about four to one, and things would otherwise be chaotic if each major religion observed a religious calendar more palatable to them.
What was the first war in the history of mankind?
The first ever war is possibly the Kurukshetra War, in India, which may have took place as early as 3000 B.C
During a major battle the Greeks sank half the Persian fleet off the coast of this small island?
Psytallia is the smallest. Nearby is Salamis which is what the battle is now called - it was 480 BCE, and this was the turning point as it removed the Persian amphibious threat to the other cities, and allowed them to send their armies away from home defence, to join up the following year to defeat the Persian army at Plataia.
Which two group fought in the Peloponnesian War?
The two groups that fought in the peloponnesian war are
Athenian Empire (Delian League), lead by Athens
and
Peloponnesian League, which is lead by Sparta
eventually, Sparta won the war
Did the Athenian Empire fall because of Pericles' death?
No, he died very early in the Peloponnesian War. Athens' surrender and loss of empire came a decade and a half later.
Are there any good books on the Gallic invasion of Rome in 387 BCE?
Cambridge Ancient History. Excerpt here: http://books.google.com.au/books?id=3qXuay2SEtIC&pg=PA302&lpg=PA302&dq=gallic+invasion+rome&source=bl&ots=TwZcegsm4X&sig=Eu-vTP4BcI42GRd9nqmfG_PUg0c&hl=en&ei=p1XDScHkNJmQsQPgw6j5Bg&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result#PPA305,M1
The great conquerer who never lost a battle, and took great pains to spread greek culture where ever he went from his entire empire and and ancient middle east was the only one King Alexander the great.
Another possibility:
There are revisionist questions about Alexander's activity in India which are hard to dismiss out of hand. His deference to King Poros and restoration of his kingdom after allegedly defeating him, and then donating Alexander's own ally King Taxila's kingdom to him; the apparent subserveince in then fighting Poros' enemies for him; and then withdrawal out of India, raises the question of whether the Hydaspes battle was in fact a defeat of Alexander, or at best a stand-off, which Alexander had to make reparations for. It smacks of a cover-up rewrite of events in the official Macedonian account glorifying Alexander. We don't have hard evidence and this will remain an unanswered question unless we oncover some hard evidence, but the questions also remain.
