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Pre-dating the urban revolution in Western Asia, a network of agricultural settlements developed in the forest-steppe zo......more
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Despite Rome’s conquest of the Mediterranean, by the turn of the first century BC, Rome’s influence barely stretched int......more
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This fully illustrated volume describes and illustrates the soldiers who garrisoned the Roman Empire’s eastern provinces......more
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