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... German Wars , supplemented by information which Tacitus easily could have acquired from Roman officers who had seen ... German village ( dorf ) was utterly unlike the Roman vicus ; there was nothing similar to the German einzelhof ...
... German Wars , supplemented by information which Tacitus easily could have acquired from Roman officers who had seen ... German village ( dorf ) was utterly unlike the Roman vicus ; there was nothing similar to the German einzelhof ...
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... German his- toriography was bad , as the degeneration of annalistic literature shows . 28 Germany like France in these vital centuries throbbed with folksong and popular ballads , some of which crept into the chronicles . An almost ...
... German his- toriography was bad , as the degeneration of annalistic literature shows . 28 Germany like France in these vital centuries throbbed with folksong and popular ballads , some of which crept into the chronicles . An almost ...
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... German eastward expansion - Petrus of Duisburg , a priest of the Order of Teutonic Knights , about 1326 , recorded the history of the conquest of Prussia , the only independent territory left between Pomerania and Livonia . Still we ...
... German eastward expansion - Petrus of Duisburg , a priest of the Order of Teutonic Knights , about 1326 , recorded the history of the conquest of Prussia , the only independent territory left between Pomerania and Livonia . Still we ...
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CHAPTER PAGE I THE ANCIENT ORIENT | 3 |
ANCIENT GREEK HISTORIOGRAPHY | 21 |
THE ALEXANDRIAN AND POSTALEXANDRIAN EPOCH | 41 |
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