Hi everyone and welcome to another episode of Ancient Warfare Answers with me, Murray, your 10-minute weekly fix of ancient warfare related stuff where I rant at you about ancient warfare, which is endlessly fascinating.

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Anyway, this question is from Carlos.

Thank you, Carlos. Besides elephants, what other units or ideas did the Hellenistic kingdoms

adopt from the peoples of the lands they ruled? Like, did they have horse archer units, etc.?

Wow. Yes, indeed. And it's an interesting one so keeping it to hellenistic rather than getting too wide and varied yes they did they used

the native units for lack of a better term to fight the way way they fought. So horse-arches and things like that.

But obviously for the Hellenistic period, the dominance of Macedonian-style heavy cavalry

and Macedonian phalanx is the core.

Creight and arches stick around as a guard to the phalanx.

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