ANCIENT WARFARE:Volume 4, no 3, June/July 2010
1-954043
Theme: Justinian's fireman: the campaigns of Belisarius.
The western and central portion of the Roman Empire disintegrated during the 5th Century, to be replaced by numerous barbarian kingdoms. Culture, science, and centralized administration - the key elements of what is generally considered 'Western Civilization' - were preserved in the eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire centered around Constantinople. But as Justinian I ascended to the Byzantine throne in 527 AD, his domain was under pressure from all sides. Theoderic the Great ruled the Ostrogoth empire in Italy and Moesia, pursuing an anti-Byzantine policy. The Vandal fleet based in North Africa preyed on Byzantine shipping in the Mediterranean. To the East, the cold war with the Persian Sassanids was turning hot.
Boeotian crack troops - the Theban Sacred Band.
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