Antiquity minis
Our 28mm antiquity minis are designed to allow you to quickly get started in a historical wargame set during antiquity thanks to our hand-painted models. Antiquity being a vast historical period, choices had to be made as to the regions and periods that will be represented. These sets form what we will call "worlds", such as the Celtic world or the Greek world for example.
The Celts were people of Central and Western Europe who have left very few written traces of their history. It is therefore complicated to find reliable sources on their civil and military organization since the texts mentioning them are written by other peoples, with whom their relations could vary from trading partners to adversaries. The term "Celt" can group together many different tribes, each with their own particularity and probably having no sense of belonging other than to their own tribe. Thus it is important to note that there is no equivalent of Celtic "Nation" but a group of tribes sharing a language (with variations) as well as a social organization and traditions. These peoples occupied a vast area in Europe (and in Asia Minor with the Galatians) including part of Spain, the British Isles and a strip going from the Atlantic coast to France and stopping a little before Romania. (inhabited by the Dacians) Note: Many of you are certainly familiar with the famous Gauls, who are Celts living in the region designated by the term Gaul by the Romans, that is to say the region on the other side of the Alps (France and Belgium). These Gauls also did not have any political unity and some tribes could very well trade and ally themselves with Rome when others made war on them.
The history of ancient Greece begins with the Mycenaean civilization (c. 1600–1100 BC), centered in the southern Greek mainland. This civilization, heavily influenced by the Minoans of Crete, was organized around fortified palaces (such as the one at Mycenae) and practiced a centralized economy. It is known from Linear B tablets and the oral tradition that would later inspire the Homeric epics. Around 1100 BC, the Mycenaean civilization collapsed abruptly, probably due to invasions, internal unrest, or natural disasters. This was followed by a dark period known as the Dark Ages (c. 1100–800 BC), during which written records disappeared, trade declined, and the population declined. However, around 800 BC, Greece entered the Archaic period. It was a time of renewal: writing was reintroduced (the Greek alphabet), city-states (or poleis) emerged, such as Athens, Sparta, and Corinth, and the first political and social institutions were established. The Greeks also colonized many regions around the Mediterranean. The Classical period (c. 500–323 BC) was marked by cultural, political, and military growth. The Persian Wars (490–479 BC) temporarily united the Greek city-states against the Persian Empire. Subsequently, Athens became a dominant power with the Delian League, while Sparta counterbalanced this hegemony. The conflict between them culminated in the Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC), which permanently weakened the Greek world. Despite this, this period saw the flourishing of philosophy (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle), theater, art, and Athenian democracy. Finally, the Hellenistic period began after the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC. This Macedonian conqueror had unified the Greek city-states under his authority and created a vast empire stretching from Greece to India. Upon his death, his empire fragmented among his generals (the Diadochi), giving rise to several Hellenistic kingdoms (Ptolemaic Egypt, Seleucid Kingdom, etc.). This era was characterized by a widespread diffusion of Greek culture throughout the Mediterranean and Eastern world, a blending of Greek and local traditions, and significant scientific and artistic advances.
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