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GEC2202 Warfare and History: Ancient China, Greece and Rome: Home

Course Description

This course will use several key wars or battles in ancient China, Greece and Rome as examples to discuss the ways of war, including strategy, tactics, weapons, logistics, etc.  This course will also lead students to read some original historical materials, including  Shiji, the Peloponnesian War, Roman History etc. Discussion based up these historical materials will help students to understand how history is recorded, remembered and reconstructed.

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