Hello and welcome to another ancient warfare answers podcast episode, something.

I'm not sure which number we're on, on something very high because we're doing a weekly podcast now,

so it goes really quick.

I am Jasper Ortiz.

I'm the editor of Ancient Warfare Magazine, and with me is Murray Dom.

He's the assistant editor.

Before we go on to the question,

I just wanted to let you know that if you can, if you're interested in supporting us, you can do

so on Patreon, patreon.com slash ancient warfare podcast. And you can combine your support for this

podcast with a subscription to the magazine. It's really easy. And you can ask us questions.

And one of the questions we've been asked is, how did ancient battles start, Murray?

Could you please summarize 3,500 years in 10 minutes?

Yes, ambitious.

That's what we are.

Thy name is ancient warfare answers.

So to be very short, ancient battles started in lots of different ways.

But it's funny, it reminds me of a conversation I had with my wife when we met and were dating,

and I talked about being an ancient military historian. She was always point out that if women had been in charge, they just would

have, you know, talked it out and all this idea of armies led by men marching around and fighting

each other, just how nonsensical it was. Whereas, you know, as an ancient historian and as an ancient

military historian, it's like, but that's my whole raison d'etre.

But that, of course, is one of the things, is that you do find in several ancient wars

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