Hi everyone. Welcome to another episode of ancient warfare answers. These are the short form

podcasts where Jasper or I spend 10 minutes answering one of your questions about ancient warfare

so that you can get your ancient warfare fix for the week ahead, as opposed to the normal

ancient warfare podcast, which is monthly.

And every two months, we deal with the latest issue of ancient warfare magazine and discuss

the theme.

And then in between those, we have literally what we call an in-betweener where we discuss

some other topic relating to ancient

warfare and that's normally the whole panel of about six of us. Now, ancient warfare answers.

Today we have a question from Jern Schneider asking how did generals plan campaigns and how

did armies find out where to go without maps? So that's the one that I'll

be answering in just a minute. Before that, however, you of course can ask a question yourselves,

if you like to. You can just send us an email or comment or however you like. You can also

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and join us. And of course, you can ask us a question about ancient warfare. And if we think we can

give an answer, we will try to do so. So, Yearn's question, how did generals plan campaigns

and how did armies find out where to go without maps?

Well, on the first hand, we think that the ancients probably did have some kinds of maps.

There are some surviving maps in things like the Putinger table, which seemed to be quite linear in terms of going from A to B.

We have some itineraries, such as the antonine itinerary and things like that, which seem to

tell us, again, how to go from here to here to here.

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