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Old June 25, 2000, 05:52   #31
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Nope, although they do sound interesting. Ours have boring titles like "Das Frühe Persien", "Griechische Geschichte", "Die Römer in Germanien" and so on. But they are very good- the book about Persia was written by one of my favourite authors of that subject. His other book is my main source of information.

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Old June 25, 2000, 14:01   #32
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Who is/are the author(s) of this book? There is not somebody called Wiesehöfer or Hinz (or perhaps even Girshman)?

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Nope... the autor is Gerhard Schweizer...
definitely are not the same books!
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Old June 25, 2000, 15:20   #34
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I doubt they are the same books, but it could have been that the author(s) wrote something I know.
I also doubt that the author wrote everything by himself. That is unusual for such a book, he is most propably the publisher (I could be wrong though).
Is there a bibliographic appendix in the book? Does it list some of these books or authors:

-Josef Wiesehöfer, Das antike Persien
-Heidemarie Koch, Es kündet Dareios der König
-R(oman) Ghirsham, Iran
-Anything by Walter Hinz and/or any of the authors
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Old June 25, 2000, 15:41   #35
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Mmmmmhhh... no.
Let me see...
Cahen, Claude "Islam", first volume...
Gallas, Klaus "Historical places of Iran"...
Hottinger, Arnold "Arabs and Persia"...
Kaempfer, Engelbert "The Great King's Hall of throne" Tubingen-Basilea 1977 is the most near to your's.

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Have you considered the idea of making a naval wonder ( not the Lighthouse - i was referring to Magellan's expedition ...)? Something like the "Great Carthage's arsenal" ( this'll also allow you to perform the Carthage's naval superiority and/or strenght ), or the "Nearcus' expedition"?
I think some of StLeo icons should perform these wonders very well ( remember, ask permission first )!
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Prometeus:
In the former version of his "imperium Romanum" scenario (currently only avialable in German )BeBro already implemented both Nearchs voyage and the Lighthouse as wonders, I think...
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BTW, it's a very fun and interesting scenario, and we should all look forward to the promised update...
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Old June 25, 2000, 16:55   #38
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Aww, too bad i can't read German... in my head only italian and a few of english can have enough room ( as well as sardinian, of course - my family comes from here )!!!

I was referring to languages, of course!
BTW ( by the way, i suppose... ), i think that the Great Carthage arsenal might be a better wonder - instead of Nearcus expedition, - because Seleucid fleet "played" only support efforts...
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I've found some infomation about
"naval ship(s)" in the Encyclopædia Britannica Online.

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After Salamis, the trireme continued as the backbone of the Greek fleet, with the ram continuing as its primary weapon. Its keel, like those of its predecessors, formed the principal-strength member, running the length of the ship and curving upward at each end. The ram, usually shod in bronze, formed a forward prolongation that gained effectiveness from the heavy keel back of it. Additional longitudinal strength came from a storming bridge, a gangway along the centreline from bow to stern along which the crew raced to board when a foe was rammed. Gradually, with ships becoming steadily heavier, boarding assumed greater importance and the ram lost some of its importance.
A trireme of the 5th century BC may have had a length of about 125 feet, a beam of 20 feet, and a draft of three feet. Manned by about 200 officers, seamen, and oarsmen (perhaps 85 on a side), with a small band of heavily armed epibatai (marines), under oars it could reach seven knots (seven nautical miles per hour; one knot equals 1.15 statute miles per hour or 1.85 kilometres per hour). Extremely light and highly maneuverable, the classical trireme represented the most concentrated application of human muscle power to military purposes ever devised. The oarsmen sat on three levels, which were slightly staggered laterally and fore and aft to achieve the maximum number of oarsmen for the size of the hull. In rowing, the oarsmen slid back and forth on leather cushions strapped to their buttocks; this enabled full use of the powerful muscles of the thighs and abdomen.
With only scant room for provisions, such warships could not remain long at sea, and a voyage usually consisted of short hops from island to island or headland to headland. Even the largest triremes put into shore and beached for the night, resuming the passage in the morning, weather permitting. Light construction and little endurance made short distances between bases essential and frequent refits imperative.


Then it says about "Later developments":
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The trireme reached its peak development in Athens. By the middle of the 4th century BC, Athenians employed quadriremes (four-bank seating), with quinqueremes appearing soon thereafter. In the late 4th and early 3rd century BC an arms race developed in the eastern Mediterranean, producing even larger multibanked ships. Macedonia's rulers built 18-banked craft requiring crews of 1,800 men. Ptolemaic Egypt capped them with 20s and 30s. Ptolemy III even laid down a 40 (tesseraconter) with a design length of over 400 feet and calling for a crew of 4,000 rowers. The vessel was never actually used. (The multiplicity of "banks," once a puzzle to historians, signifies the number of rowers on each oar or row of oars rather than an almost unimaginable vertical piling-up of banks.)

That's it! - The 4000 soldiers mentionened in your first post, Bernd...

The following is just for those who're really interested and have not already given up reading because of boredom...
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This same arms race brought other changes of significance. Until the late 4th century BC, maneuver, marines, and the ram constituted a warship's offensive strength, and archers provided close-in fire. Demetrius I Poliorcetes of Macedonia is credited with introducing heavy missile weapons on ships at the end of the century, starting a trend that has continued to the present day. Demetrius' ships mounted crossbowlike catapults, for hurling heavy darts, and stone-throwing machines of the type the Romans later called ballistae. From this time on, large warships carried these weapons, enabling them to engage a foe at standoff ranges, though ramming and boarding also continued. Temporary wooden turrets--forecastles and sterncastles--were similarly fitted to provide elevated platforms for archers and slingers.
Following the fragmentation of the brief empire of Alexander the Great, sea power developed elsewhere. The city-state of Rhodes built a small but competent fleet to protect its vital shipping. Meanwhile to the west, Carthage, a state with ancient maritime origins, rose to prominence on the north coast of Africa and by about 300 BC had become the foremost Mediterranean naval power. Carthage's navy consisted probably of the same ram-galley types developed by its ancestral Phoenicians and by the Greeks.

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Old June 26, 2000, 00:57   #40
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Thanks, SCDARS!!! i've never thinked about Britannica stuff...

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My source book about Persians is titled "I Persiani da Zaharatushtra a Khomeini" ( "The Persians from Zaharatushtra's to Khomeini's times" - but original German title is simply "Persien"... too short, huh? ).

P.S. times need not to be written in italian construction - it's ... "sottointeso"!!!
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Don´t worry, Prometeus! The new version of my scn will be available in English too.

Question: The Great Carthage arsenal, what is it? I´ve seen a pic of a giant round building in the seaport of Carthago, where their warships were stored in the winter or when not in operation, is this the arsenal (I hope this is correct explained)?

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Biiiiiinnnnnngggooooooo!!!!
You're right. That's the mighty Arsenal of the powerfull Carthaginian fleet...
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Thanks a lot, Prometeus! Perhaps I change Nearchos´Voyage into the Slot of Darwin´s, and take the Great Arsenal as Magellan´s Expedition...
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Prometeus: I ran the infos about that book of yours thru www.buch.de, a German major online bookstore. Schweizer seems to be an important professor of Islamic and near eastern history. I have indeed seen the book of yours in its German version in Berlin, but it was called "Iran- Drehscheibe zwischen Ost und West".

BeBro: Is your scenario the one that was called "Antike" on the Largest German page?
If I remember correctly, it goes back into Achaemenid times. In that case, I would suggest that you replace Nearchus' voyage either by Hanno's voyage, or Skylax' voyage. Hanno was a carthaginian explorer who sailed from Carthage around northern Africa as far as Guniea (I have a map of his voyage, if you want to have it... ), Skylax was a Greek seafarer, who sailed through the Persian Gulf, the waters of the Arabian sea and around the Arabian penninsula and finally demanded the Great King of Persia to complete the "Suez" canal of antiquity.
Both voyages were of much more importance than Nearchus' puddle walk.

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To Stefan
Maybe it was renamed... who knows?

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Another hint: during Hellenistic times, many naval installations were fortified in order to prevent a sea assault... why not, fortified navy port instead of naval fortress as city improvement... i tried it on my "Ex oriente lux" scenario - it worked pretty good. What do you think about, Stefan?
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Thanks for the suggestions, guys! Stefan, yes, Hanno´s voyage sounds very good, please send the map to me.

And you are right, it´s the same scn. It´s name was Imperium Romanum from the beginning on, but the ZIP file I sended to the German Civ Page was named Antike, and so Willi thought that this was also the scn name...
However, not really a problem.
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BeBro: I'll send the map as soon as I can scan it. Right now my scanner is blocked because I needed some room to put my books on which I had to take out of my shelf in order to re-place it
Coastal fortifications.... well, as far as I know these existed mainly in the large maritime cities: Carthage, Tyros, Alexandria, Rhodes, Syracuse etc. But yes, since I use them regularily in my scenarios...
It could also be called "harbor blockade". These were more common than real coastal fortifications, since they were easier to set up, often more effective and built up in minimum of time.

What I would love to see is a pre-punic war scenario about the relations between Rome and Carthage that makes use of the Carthaginian-Roman naval area that makes it impossible for Roman ships to pass through Carthaginian territory (invisible units would do the trick).

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Actually, i'm planning to use that trick in order to prevent Kok-Turks from invading Tibet...

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I just found at this phoenician site in the voyages section a quite good map of some ancient sea voyages...

It shows that the largest voyage was ordered by Necho II., an Egyptian pharaoh (610-595): His men are told to have been the first to circumnavigate Africa.
But, of course he was no Carthaginian...
In my own scenario I've also been using Hanno's Voyage for ages, so you don't have to change this .
(I couldn't display it here, because it has been split up in too many factions in order to enforce referrals to the main site)
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just ignore it
I hope you didn't see it...
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Ingo, this Phoenician site is great!
It should appear in Hendrik´s Civ Ressources (but I think he´s on Holiday at the moment).

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Maybe i'll put it in my favourite sites list... once i'll have finished to work on mine.
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For everyone living in Germany or having access to German TV, I saw a very good documentation about the search for the tomb of Alexander the Great on ZDF. Next week they're having Carthage (Sunday, 19:30, ZDF).
Just a quick note for anyone interested.

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Originally posted by Stefan Härtel on 07-09-2000 03:46 PM
the search for the tomb of Alexander the Great ...


Too bad i live in Italy, i can't view that .

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Good hint Stefan, I´ve seen some minutes of the Alex the Great thing, and waiting for the Carthage part next week.
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Too bad i live in Italy, i can't view that .


This is someting that goes through the news all the time.
An Egyptian archaeologist said that he knows where the tomb lies: On the latin cementary of Alexandria. They have found a tomb that is in some way similar to Macedonian ones.

Right now there are three theories: One by that Egyptian, one by somebody else, and one by some German geologists who have found a large room below a cementary in Alexandria by using their geological instruments.
I personally doubt that they will find it anywhere in modern Alexandria. They should look either in Siwa, or in the sea infront of Alexandria.

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Damn you, Tolomeus Ist Soter...
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