Rome & the sword : how warriors & weapons shaped Roman history
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Rome & the sword : how warriors & weapons shaped Roman history
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The work Rome & the sword : how warriors & weapons shaped Roman history represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- Rome & the sword : how warriors & weapons shaped Roman history
- Title remainder
- how warriors & weapons shaped Roman history
- Statement of responsibility
- Simon James
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The rise of Rome depended on fearsome military prowess, backed up by an unprecedented willingness to accept conquered enemies into society as Romans. This combination of the sword and the open hand built one of the world's greatest empires. This is a study of Roman history and ancient military technology.
- Cataloging source
- StDuBDS
- Dewey number
- 355.00937
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- U35
- LC item number
- .J36 2011
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Summary expansion
- Simon James provides a striking new perspective on Roman history by focusing on the soldiers and their actions. Rome's soldiers were less sentinels of civilization than enforcers for aristocrats and autocrats against foreign foes and internal dissent. They were brutal and unruly, prone to mutiny and rebellion. How, then, to account for their sustained success and their eventual failure Rome's dominion was achieved through soldiers' ferocity and excellent weaponry, but to maintain it the conquered were integrated, as diplomacy accompanied the threat of the sword. Millions of allies and subjects became Romans themselves through military service. Nevertheless, the aggression of Rome's soldiers precipitated the creation of a new Sasanian superpower in Iran and great barbarian confederations in the North
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