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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 698772" data-attributes="member: 6533">mmmm, pre-Roman civilization....Technology changes slowly during this period.  Interesting innovations can be made and lost pretty easily, but the chance of them catching on an doing much is fairly slim.  Different nations are going to have very different ways of doing things, but technology gaps aren't going to exist as we know them.   There will pretty much just be different ways of doing things.  Agricultural and nautical technology are limited exceptions.  People with Triremes and better horses have significant advantages over those who don't.I'm reading Herodotus this very instant!  Or rather I have been reading him for a week or two alongside all the other things I have to read or choose to read.  He's really more interested in culture than anything else, however, for the real classical conflicts I would hit Thucydides.Xenophon's March up the Country, Anabasis, is a military classic with astounding details and insight into what it takes to actually march an army from one place to another place.  Alexander's grand strategy for conquering Persia is said to have been inspired by this account.  It's also pretty short and there are easy to read translations.Though, again, this is a situation much removed from those specifically, and wonderfully, Greek historians.In the ancient world army size and kindom development can vary wildly.  The armies of up to half a million did occur, but they were pretty rare and required Imperial power to put together.Ten to twenty thousand is a pretty impressive number in its own right, but is a good number for large military efforts during periods with a fair amount of prosperity and organized large kingdoms who spend some time in conflict.Four hundred years is some time, but makes sense given how largely unpopulated this world seems to be and the inclusion of the Jongans.What's the common Cressian city or cultural center pattern like, and what are the notable exceptions?They have some nice coral fortifications by this point?</blockquote>

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