Hi everyone and welcome to another episode of Ancient Warfare Answers with me, Murray, your weekly

10 minute fix or more if I get carried away of ancient warfare-esque stuff.

Now this one, we've got a question today from Kyle. Thank you, Kyle, for your question. I'll get

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Now, a question from Kyle is greetings.

I have a question for ancient warfare answers.

What was the mechanism that Carthage, or really any ancient power, used to recruit mercenaries?

Were there people whose job it was to travel,ul, Liberia, Greece, etc., recruiting,

or was the sending of mercenaries part of political negotiations?

These are my two guesses.

I hope you are able to shine some light on this process.

All the best, and thank you.

Right, thanks, Kyle.

Now, interestingly, we do know quite a lot about some mercenary recruitment

and less about other mercenary recruitment,

but we tend to use the ideas we have from the sum to inform the other.

So what you've got in various agreements between communities, actually,

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