ancient warfare
Primitive military conflict
Ancient warfare encompasses armed conflict from prehistory through roughly the fall of Rome—before gunpowder transformed combat.
It evokes bronze swords, iron spears, siege engines, phalanxes, and legions.
The term appears in military history, strategy games, and discussions of classical civilizations: He's obsessed with ancient warfare, especially the Punic Wars.
- ambushesHidden surprise attacks
- siege tacticsMethods for capturing fortifications
- encirclementSurrounding enemy forces completely
- EgyptiansNorth African Arab nation's people
- war elephantsTrained elephants for combat
chariots · Greeks · Alexander the Great · flanking maneuvers · Sun Tzu · trireme · Greek fire · scorched earth · Assyrians · Hittites · hand to hand · war cry · Punic Wars · decimation · ballistae · Babylonians · siege engines · Persians
- military historybattles, soldiers, campaigns, officers, battlefields
- wargameswargame, wargaming, war game, strategy game, naval combat
- military erasWorld War I, Vietnam War, Korean War, Hundred Years War, Thirty Years War
- prehistorystone tools, Neolithic, Stone Age, caveman, cavemen
- classicsHomer, Iliad, the Iliad, Odyssey, the Odyssey
- warrior culturesamurai, knights, warrior, gladiators, berserkers
ancient warfaremodern warfare
Present-day armed conflict
space warfare · cyber warfare · nuclear warfare · information warfare · drone warfare
ancient warfarecyber warfare
Attacks via computer networks
drone warfare · mechanized warfare · electronic warfare · nuclear warfare
ancient warfarepeacekeeping
Preventing or ending conflict
cold war · asymmetric warfare · guerrilla warfare · international cooperation