Describes aspects of the lives of soldiers in the ancient world, covering recruitment, rations, equipment, camp, discipline, weapons, armor, transport, tactics, military staffs, medical care, infection, death, and other topics, and profiles ancient armies throughout the world.
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Origins of war -- The soldier -- Recruitment -- Manpower -- Rations -- Equipment -- The camp -- Discipline and punishment -- Weapons -- Armor, helmets, and shields -- Chariotry -- Cavalry -- Logistics and transport -- Strategic range and endurance -- Tactics -- Military staffs -- Siegecraft and artillery -- Death and wounding -- Infection and disease -- Injury -- Medical care -- Sumer and Akkad (3500-2200 B.C.E.) -- Egypt (1580-960 B.C.E.) -- The Mitanni (1480-1335 B.C.E.)-- The Hittites (1450-1180 B.C.E.) -- The Canaanites (1500-900 B.C.E.) -- The Philistines (1200-900 B.C.E.) -- The Israelites (1100-921 B.C.E.) -- Assyria (890-612 B.C.E.) -- China (1750-256 B.C.E.) -- India (1200-120 B.C.E.) -- Classical Greece (600-338 B.C.E.) -- Persia (546-323 B.C.E.)-- Imperial Greece (356-323 B.C.E.) -- The Successors (323-168 B.C.E.) -- Republican Rome (500-28 B.C.E.) -- Carthage (814-146 B.C.E.) -- The barbarians: Gauls, Germans, and Goths (58 B.C.E.-445 C.E.) -- Imperial Rome (9-450 C.E.).