Warships of the Ancient World 3000-500 BC (Osprey New Vanguard 196)

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Автор: Adrian K.Wood

Название: Warships of the Ancient World 3000-500 BC

Издательство: Osprey Publishing

Серия: Osprey New Vanguard 196

ISBN: 1849089787

Год: 2013

Формат: PDF (e-book)

Страниц: 50

Размер: 5 Mb

Язык: English

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The world’s first war machines were ships built two millennia before the dawn of the Classical world. Their influence on the course of history cannot be overstated. A wide variety of galleys and other types of warships were built by successive civilisations, each with their own distinctive appearance, capability and utility. The earliest of these were the Punt ships and the war galleys of Egypt which defeated the Sea People in the first known naval battle. Following the fall of these civilisations, the Phoenicians built biremes and other vessels, while in Greece the ships described in detail in the ‘Trojan’ epics established a tradition of warship building culminating in the pentekonters and triaconters.