10 Battles That Erased Entire Civilizations From History

10 Battles That Erased Entire Civilizations From History October fourteenth, ten sixty-six. On a ridge in the county of Sussex, in the grey English morning, two armies faced each other across a slope of muddy ground. One of them represented something that had existed for six centuries: Anglo-Saxon England, its language, its laws, its nobility, its entire way of understanding the world. By nightfall, that world would be gone. Not weakened. Not changed. Gone. King Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, died somewhere on that ridge, most likely from an arrow, though historians still debate the exact manner of his death. What is not debated is what his death meant. The Norman duke William had not just won a battle. He had won the right to erase a civilization and replace it with his own.