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Salamis has a solid position as one of the most influential battles of all time including land battles. Whittington a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the honors in the major program in history in the college of arts and humanities and in the burnett honors college at the university of central florida orlando, florida. In ancient times, one of the first important discoveries would have to be the control of fire. C devises plan to send nobles away to fight a losing battle using faulty enticement ex. In ancient times one of the first important discoveries. What about the invention of spoken and then written language. Designed as an incendiary weapon circa 7th century ad, the greek fire is one of the very few contrivances whose gruesome effectiveness was noted by various thencontemporary sources, both arabs and greeks. The webs source of information for ancient history. The state of civilizational conflict between islam and the west.
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