Ancient siege weapons Onager (siege weapon) 1. A round stone (often clay balls with combustible substance in them‚ which explode on impact and burst into flames) is put in the pouch and the arm is winched down. 2. The onager’s framework is made out of two beams from oak‚ which curve into humps. In the middle they have quite large holes in them‚ in which strong sinew ropes are stretched and twisted. A long arm is then inserted between the bundles of rope; at its end it has a pin and a pouch
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Jerusalem Jerusalem‚ the capital of Israel is located in the center of Israel. It stands on top of the Judean mountains. These mountains are 700-800M above sea level. Jerusalem’s latitude and longitude are 31.7833° N‚ 35.2167° E. For many Jews Jerusalem the holiest place in the world. This city was selected by King David 3000 years ago. The heart of biblical Israel and the Jewish faith is Jerusalem. Jerusalem is holy to the Jews but also very holy to the Christian and Muslim faiths. Israel is in
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http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/whic/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Reference&disableHighlighting=false&prodId=WHIC&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CCX2897300049&mode=view ECONOMY AND TRADE The economy of the Assyrian empire was based on agriculture‚ livestock raising‚ and trade. Assyrian agriculture‚ like that of other civilizations in the ancient Near East‚ centered on the growing of grains‚ fruits‚ and vegetables. Livestock
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Jerusalem‚ the city of the three faiths. Jerusalem founded in between 4500-3500 BCE has become a center of the three major monotheistic faiths in the world‚ Judaism‚ Christianity‚ and Islam. Rising from a proto-Canaanite village to a city that has had crusades and Jihads launched in its name has truly been an amazing turn of events. How did it happen? Why is it important? Why here and not elsewhere? What makes people so driven to capture Jerusalem? Why has it been captured and recaptured no less
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first part of this series‚ we noted the siege equipment of the Assyrians consisted of complex battering rams‚ earthen ramps and a dedicated corps of engineers and sappers. Alexander the Great and the Greeks would take the next steps in the evolution of siege warfare. The Greeks had invented the catapult circa 399 B.C. Early catapults were driven by either tension devices or torsion in the form of twisted ropes. In January 332 B.C.‚ Alexander began the Siege of Tyre. While the rest of the cities on
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that items displace their weight in water. ● One of Archimedes’s great achievements was the water screw (background) which is an ingenious way of getting water from a “low-lying body of water into irrigation systems”. ● During the siege of Syracuse by the Romans‚ Archimedes developed a type of large claw or beak that extended from a crane of sorts‚ grabbed onto enemy boat and either capsized it or threw it unexpectedly back down. ● Among the greatest of Archimedes’s famous war machines was
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The Summary of: A Woman In Jerusalem The brilliant author‚ A. B. Yehoshua‚ tells the story of very long quest to find the identity of a deceased young woman killed as the result from a bomb’s explosion in Jerusalem‚ within the book‚ A Woman in Jerusalem. The novel initially begins at a marketplace in the beautiful city of Jerusalem. Just as soon as the story begins‚ the death of a women is announced due to a terrorist bombing within the marketplace. Soon after the young woman’s death‚ her corpse
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Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies‚ Vol.14 NO.1 (2000) Democracy under siege: the Presidency and executive powers in Botswana Mpho G. Molomo Democracy Research Project University of Botswana Abstract This article outlines that the Constitution of Botswana provides for an executive presidency with extensive powers. Unlike other constitutions in the region where power is vested with the people‚ in Botswana it is vested with the President. While democratic procedures have not been
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Eichmann in Jerusalem‚ Arendt gives an account of the trial of Adolf Eichmann and provides analysis of the case‚ focusing on the question of Eichmann’s conscience. Arendt believes that the judges missed the “greatest moral and even legal challenge of the whole case”: Eichmann’s inability to tell right from wrong. Her argument that Eichmann’s conscience was “quieted” due to the influence of his social environment‚ peers‚ and superiors is convincing‚ and as I read Eichmann in Jerusalem I became convinced
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Word Count: 727 Saving the New Jerusalem According to Eric O. Jacobsen’s article “Waiting for Jerusalem”‚ “claiming our cities for Christ” means: “spreading God’s word in certain geographical areas through preaching the gospel and spiritual warfare” (1). This idea of “claiming our cities for Christ” is meant to help spread the good news of the lord and keep certain cities God like. There are however three different problems to this. The first problem with this approach is that it doesn’t seem
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