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    triremes, in the navies of the major Hellenistic kingdoms like Egypt. Perhaps the most famous of the Hellenistic-era warships, because of its extensive use by...
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    smaller African elephant. Hellenistic military equipment was generally characterized by an increase in size. Hellenistic-era warships grew from the trireme...
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    designs, such as the lembus, the hemiolia and the liburnians. Hellenistic-era warships Pentecopterus, a genus of eurypterid named after the penteconter...
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    and rowing warship, equally well suited to sailing and rowing. Galleon, a 16th-century armed cargo carriers. Hellenistic galleys, warships propelled by...
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  • Rome had fallen completely from power in Western Europe. Galley Hellenistic-era warships Ward, Cheryl A (October 2007). "Sacred and Secular: Ancient Egyptian...
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  • List of decommissioned ships of the Hellenic Navy Greek shipping Hellenistic-era warships ANEK Lines § Fleet Blue Star Ferries § Fleet This disambiguation...
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    Leontophoros (category Ships of the Hellenistic period)
    Baochuan, the Chinese treasure ship Hellenistic-era warships Memnon. History of Heraclea. W. W. Tarn (1930). Hellenistic military and naval developments....
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  • France built a series of ironclad warships between the 1850s and 1890s; these began with the Dévastation-class ironclad floating batteries built during...
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    BC), the Ptolemaic navy became the largest in the Hellenistic world and had some of the largest warships ever built in antiquity. The navy reached its height...
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    Winged Victory of Samothrace (category Hellenistic sculpture)
    of the Aegean Sea. It is a masterpiece of Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic era, dating from the beginning of the 2nd century BC (190 BC). It is composed...
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  • In the Hellenistic era, as civilizations around the Mediterranean grew in size and complexity, both their navies and the Hellenistic-era warships such as...
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    crossbow (gastraphetes) Hellenistic era artillery tower with arrow shooters (euthytona) and stone throwers (palintona) Hellenistic era semi-automatic bolt...
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    Tessarakonteres (category Ships of the Hellenistic period)
    simply "forty", was a very large catamaran galley reportedly built in the Hellenistic period by Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt. It was described by a number...
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    Machine Age (redirect from Machine Era)
    The Machine Age is an era that includes the early-to-mid 20th century, sometimes also including the late 19th century. An approximate dating would be...
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    In Morrison & Gardiner (1995), pp. 86–100. Morrison, John S. "Hellenistic Oared Warships 399-31 BC". In Morrison & Gardiner (1995), pp. 66–77. Pryor, John...
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    Macedonia (ancient kingdom) (category Hellenistic Macedonia)
    Archaic and Classical Greece, which later became the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece. The kingdom was founded and initially ruled by the royal Argead...
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    Liburnians (redirect from Liburnian warship)
    cultural aspects were retained. Apart from the extended importation of Hellenistic and Italic pottery, and other lesser influences, Liburnian cultural relations...
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    Alexander the Great was in control of Greece, as hegemon. During the Hellenistic period, Corinth, like many other Greece cities, never quite had autonomy...
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     38–41 Morrison, Coates & Rankov 2000, pp. 48–49 Morrison, John. "Hellenistic Oared Warships 399–31 BC". In Morrison & Gardiner (1995), pp. 66–67. Rankov,...
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    appearance and evolution of medieval warships is a matter of debate and conjecture; until recently, no remains of an oared warship from either ancient or early...
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    the Canaanite, Israelite, Hellenistic, Roman (including Herodian) and Byzantine periods. Archaeological finds from Roman-era Sebaste, a site that was rebuilt...
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    either killed, captured or lost. During the Hellenistic period, the light trireme was supplanted by larger warships in dominant navies, especially the pentere/quinquereme...
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    the Greek Dark Ages and Archaic period and is in turn succeeded by the Hellenistic period. This century is essentially studied from the Athenian outlook...
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    earthquakes. It affected the Herodian Kingdom of Judea in the Holy Land. The Hellenistic period ends (or AD 14 by some scholars). Aristobulus IV, Jewish prince...
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    Qing dynasty (redirect from Ching era)
    Chinese documents be written in English and a proviso granting British warships unlimited access to all navigable Chinese rivers. Ratification of the treaty...
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    fifty-three decked warships and over one hundred and fifty smaller warships took part on the Macedonian side, with sixty-five decked warships and a number of...
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    Ancient Rome (redirect from Roman era)
    navy comprised several fleets including warships and merchant vessels for transportation and supply. Warships were oared sailing galleys with three to...
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    the underwater archaeological sites of three cities from the pre-Hellenistic, Hellenistic and Roman periods. The eastern part of ancient city of Canopus...
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    Syracusia (category Ships of the Hellenistic period)
    Discoveries. The History Channel. Season 3, episode 4. Burn, Lucilla (2004). Hellenistic art: from Alexander the Great to Augustus. The British Museum Press....
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    Bastarnae (category Hellenistic-era tribes in the Balkans)
    Second Macedonian War (200–197 BC), which had reduced him from a powerful Hellenistic monarch to the status of a petty client-king with a much-reduced territory...
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