Military history
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Military history is the study of armed conflict in the history of humanity, and its impact on the societies, cultures, and economies thereof, as well as the resulting changes to local and internationa
Infantry were the first military forces in history. This warrior statuette from Southern Italy illustrates the role of the military in historical societies, c.480 BC, Staatliche Antikensammlungen.
The Canadian War Museum.
Relief of Ramses II located in Abu Simbel fighting at the Battle of Kadesh on a chariot
A Greek trireme
Historiography
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Historiography is the study of the methods used by historians in developing history as an academic discipline. By extension, the term historiography is any body of historical work on a particular subj
The Allegory On the Writing of History shows Truth (top) watching the historian write history, while advised by Wisdom (Jacob de Wit, 1754)
Reproduction of part of a tenth-century copy of Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War
Bust of Thucydides, Hellenistic copy of a 4th-century BC work
The Roman bust traditionally identified as Cato the Elder