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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 7807286" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>I don't dispute that as a reasonable chunk of time to detail. However, for the readers - what historians usually call the "middle ages" is broader, and includes several centuries before this, and a century or so after this. </p><p></p><p>And, similarly I note that we are specifying war <em>in Europe</em>. The Crusades, which ran through this period, were outside Europe, and made much larger use of European infantry - IIRC, the first crusade had something like 5000 cavalry, and 30K to 35K infantry. I think we are also leaving out some of the conflicts of northern Europe which we could reasonably call the Viking period that overlaps the early portion of the period you set. Danes, Norwegians, Swedes, and other folks there has some back-and-forth among themselves that was in a different mode than the rest of the continent. </p><p></p><p>The impacts of these kinds of conflicts should probably be handled separately.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, not destroying infrastructure that they intended to own if they won the war was by design. However, the mode of using mounted cavalry instead of infantry was less intentional and more a simple upshot of having developed the wealth base and technology to field enough knights. There wasn't much point in having a standing army of lightly armored infantry, as knights would cut them to ribbons.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 7807286, member: 177"] I don't dispute that as a reasonable chunk of time to detail. However, for the readers - what historians usually call the "middle ages" is broader, and includes several centuries before this, and a century or so after this. And, similarly I note that we are specifying war [I]in Europe[/I]. The Crusades, which ran through this period, were outside Europe, and made much larger use of European infantry - IIRC, the first crusade had something like 5000 cavalry, and 30K to 35K infantry. I think we are also leaving out some of the conflicts of northern Europe which we could reasonably call the Viking period that overlaps the early portion of the period you set. Danes, Norwegians, Swedes, and other folks there has some back-and-forth among themselves that was in a different mode than the rest of the continent. The impacts of these kinds of conflicts should probably be handled separately. Well, not destroying infrastructure that they intended to own if they won the war was by design. However, the mode of using mounted cavalry instead of infantry was less intentional and more a simple upshot of having developed the wealth base and technology to field enough knights. There wasn't much point in having a standing army of lightly armored infantry, as knights would cut them to ribbons. [/QUOTE]
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