5 WORLD DEFINING HISTORICAL BATTLES
We have a few threads out there hand-wringing over war, yet war is part of the human condition. And the world we live in was shaped by wars. This article highlights 5 battles that defined our world:
1. THE BATTLE OF THERMOPYLAE, 480 BCWe take certain things in history for granted: Western civilization’s ancient Greek origins, Rome’s stunning domination of the world for hundreds of years or the democracies which have sprung up all over the world etc.
But the things that seem natural now in retrospect (ancient Greek city-states’ progressive concepts, Rome’s pragmatism and efficiency which also translated to the military plane, democracy’s widespread adoption), might not have happened at all!
2. THE BATTLE OF PHARSALUS, 48 BC
3. THE BATTLE OF TOURS/BATTLE OF POITIERS, 732 AD
4. THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS, 1066 AD
5. THE SIEGE OF VIENNA, 1529