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Military logistics in antiquity: how armies moved thousands of kilometers
Ancient armies numbered tens of thousands of soldiers, and moving them over long distances required complicated logistics without planes or transport vehicles. Commanders such as Alexander the Great or Caesar had to organize supplies of food, water and equipment for hundreds of thousands of people on the march. Roads, rivers and the sea played a key role, as did systems for storing grain and livestock along marching routes.
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