Some question about ancient sources on Meroe, and earlier …
2023年7月31日 · 2) Did the Egyptians write extensively about Meroe or any of its predecessors? I know of the "miserable Kush" inscription, but anything with more depth to it? 3) Did the Greeks and Romans write much about them? I have read Herodotus, and Strabo's account of the Nubian war. Are there other good texts? 4) Anyone else write about them?
Meroitic and Aksumite Royal Elephants (and the possible use of …
2022年7月5日 · I recently read the following 2018 article by Michael Charles, , which is a fascinating discussion on the Aksumite usage of elephants. It also includes some information on Meroitic usage, and Charles, an experienced scholar on war elephants, makes the proposal that the Aksumites occasionally used large bush elephants as part of the royal herd ...
After Chin/Han Dynasty and the Roman Empire, what would be …
2023年12月7日 · If you make this go to 500 AD, there are also the Northern Wei and Rouran, which had full fledged stirrups. If you are only going up to around 200 AD, from a purely military perspective, I would put the Xiongnu Empire (its not a confederacy) at its height even ahead of the Roman Empire as the former had a purely cavalry based army which numbered some 300,000.
Macrobians Kingdom? - History Forum
Last edited: Oct 7, 2015. #1. The Macrobians were an ancient people and kingdom positioned on the Somali peninsula during the 1st millennium BC. They are mentioned by Herodotus as being a nation of people that had mastered longevity with the average Macrobian living till the age of 120. They were said to be the "Tallest and Handsomest of all men".
The Wheel in Ancient Ghana, Mali, and Songhai?
2015年12月4日 · The wheel came to India with the Mittani/Vedic Indians fleeing Assyria. They were definitely a part of the invention process as well as the domestication of the horse but this was thousands of years before the arrived in India.
Diocletian and Yesbokheamani | Page 3 | History Forum
2012年2月25日 · Amanirenas, Queen of Kush. (late first century, B.C.E.) Like Zenobia, this queen of Kush took advantage of unrest that distracted Roman troops from her realm, the kingdom of Meroe. The Emperor Augustus had recently attempted to tax the kushites and Amanirenas, one in a long line of ruling kushite women, took offense.
The Kingdom of Makuria and it's warfare | History Forum
2016年6月30日 · THE KINGDOM OF MAKURIA - HISTORY Makuria was one of the initially 3 Christian kingdoms of Nubia, succeeding the Kushite Kingdom of Meroe. After the fracture of Kush due to Nomadic invasions, expeditions of Aksum and a decline of trade with Rome, Nubians took control of Kushite territory. From the first to third Nile cataract, Nobadia was ...
How effective would war elephants be against Sub Sahara African …
2021年3月9日 · Hydaspes likewise brought on his army and placed the soldiers of Meroe, who were skilled to fight hand in hand with heavy swords, against the Persians and the Medes on the right wing. The Troglodytes and those who come from the country where the cinnamon grows, light harnessed soldiers and cunning archers and very swift of foot, he set against ...
What did Ancient Nubians actually look like? | History Forum
2018年8月19日 · Kushite royal bronze statuettes: There is really very little reason to think that "Ancient Nubians" would have looked all that different from Sudanese people today. Colossal statue of King Natakamani, Meroitic, 1st century AD, from Tabo, with a modern Sudanese man standing at his feet, National Museum of Sudan.
The difference between North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa
2016年1月28日 · Jan 29, 2016. #6. One of the biggest differences to the eye of a non-African is the phenotype of the populations of the two parts of Africa. In North Africa people tend to have phenotypical affinities with Middle Easterners and Southern Europeans, whereas Sub-saharan Africans - although they tend to have a lot of diverse phenotypes - they ...