
Название: Osprey Men-at-Arms 218 - Ancient Chinese Armies 1500-200 BC
Автор: CJ Peers
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 0850459427
Год: 1991
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 48
Размер: 11,7 МБ
Язык: Английский
By the 15th century BC the valley of Hwang Ho was dominated by a palace-based military caste which owed its supremacy to a monopoly of bronze-working techniques among a still mainly Stone Age population. To the Shang Dynasty, war was a means of legitimising the power of their new aristocracy.