Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "The Earliest Sieges in History (and How they Worked)" video.

  1. That's classified as a ruse or strategem.
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  2. Correction: Babylon did not exist in the Bronze Age. The biggest city in that region at the time was Akkad, and even then only in the late bronze age. The reason for the changing center of population is because the Tigris and Euphrates have shifted course many times.
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  3. You overstate the scale of sieges during this period as by all accounts populations appear tiny, especially in the early and middle bronze age when national governments did not exist either. Most states had kings that were also sherrif, judge, and army captains and most states praised how tall and mighty the king was rather than praise how efficient he ran a government. It is likely sieges were the norm of warfare because battles mostly consisted of fights between individuals and the urban siege was the only conventional fight in existence.
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  4. Screw those games and everything they stand for
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  5. Mesopotamia has only had one largestcity at a time @theprancingrat 
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  6. It was amongst the loot left in the Achaean camp, allegedly
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  7. The city of Troy definitely existed, but invincible soldiers and 60,000 man campaigns in the bronze age did not
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  8.  @OK-yy6qz  you talk so much but say so little... Look, not even Alexander the Great had an army that large because pre-industrial logistics didn't allow it. Even so, there were no real cities in Archaic Greece.
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  9. That has nothing to do with what I just said di3727 
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