Prehistoric warfare refers to war that occurred between societies without recorded history .
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144-752: A blank slate, and later society and the environment influence which way we lean. In Rousseau's state of nature, people did not know each other enough to come into serious conflict and they did have normal values. The modern society, and the inception of private property, is blamed for the disruption of the state of nature which Rousseau sees as true freedom. David Hume offers in A Treatise of Human Nature (1739) that human beings are naturally social: "'Tis utterly impossible for men to remain any considerable time in that savage condition, which precedes society; but that his very first state and situation may justly be esteem'd social. This, however, hinders not, but that philosophers may, if they please, extend their reasoning to
216-507: A clear theory as to why the people would be justified in overthrowing a monarchy which abuses the trust they had placed in it. Montesquieu makes use of the concept of the state of nature in his The Spirit of the Laws , first printed in 1748. Montesquieu states the thought process behind early human beings before the formation of society. He says that human beings would have the faculty of knowing and would first think to preserve their life in
288-697: A controversial topic in the history of ideas at least since Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan (1651) argued a "war of all against all" , a view directly challenged by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in a Discourse on Inequality (1755) and The Social Contract (1762). The debate over human nature continues, spanning contemporary anthropology , archaeology , ethnography , history , political science , psychology , primatology , and philosophy in such divergent books as Azar Gat 's War in Human Civilization and Raymond C. Kelly 's Warless Societies and
360-789: A direct consequence of the sedentism as it developed in the wake of the Neolithic Revolution . An important example is the massacre of Talheim Death Pit (near Heilbronn , Germany ), dated right on the cusp of the beginning European Neolithic, at 5500 BC. Investigation of the Neolithic skeletons found in the Talheim Death pit in Germany suggests that prehistoric men from neighboring tribes were prepared to brutally fight and kill each other in order to capture and secure women . Researchers discovered that there were women among
432-422: A number of taboos and practices that limit the number of casualties and the duration of the conflict. This type of situation is known as endemic warfare . Among tribal societies engaging in endemic warfare, conflict may escalate to actual warfare occasionally for reasons such as conflict over resources or for no readily understandable reason. Warfare is known to every tribal society, but some societies developed
504-806: A particular emphasis on the formation of a warrior culture (such as the Nuer of South Sudan , the Māori of New Zealand , the Dugum Dani of Papua , the Yanomami (dubbed "the Fierce People") of the Amazon. The culture of inter-tribal warfare has long been present in New Guinea . State of nature In ethics , political philosophy , social contract theory , religion, and international law ,
576-412: A person. Societies existing before the political state are investigated and studied as Mesolithic history, as archaeology , and as cultural anthropology , as social anthropology , and as ethnology to determine the particulars of the indigenous society's social structures and power structures. The early Warring States philosopher Mozi was one of the first thinkers in recorded history to develop
648-605: A prehistoric Paleoamerican man, and Ötzi , who lived and died in the European Alps some 5,200 years ago, were probably killed in warfare. Warfare in pre-Columbian North America has served as an important comparandum in the archaeological study of the indirect evidence for warfare in the Neolithic. A notable example is the massacre at the Crow Creek Site in South Dakota (14th century). The onset of
720-476: A prehistoric massacre is at the site of Jebel Sahaba , committed against a population associated with the Qadan culture of far northern Sudan . The cemetery contains a large number of skeletons that are approximately 13,000 to 14,000 years old, with 24 out of 59 skeletons presenting arrowheads embedded in their skeletons, which indicates that they might have been the casualties of warfare. It has been noted that
792-415: A result, father and son and elder and younger brothers became enemies and were estranged from each other, since they were unable to reach any agreement. Everybody worked for the disadvantage of the others with water, fire, and poison. Surplus energy was not spent for mutual aid; surplus goods were allowed to rot without sharing; excellent teachings ( dao , 道 ) were kept secret and not revealed. The disorder in
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#1732765814287864-455: A revolutionizing cut-and-thrust weapon, and javelins . Such new weaponry, in the hands of large numbers of "running skirmishers", who could swarm and cut down a chariot army, would destabilize states that were based upon the use of chariots by the ruling class. That would precipitate an abrupt social collapse as raiders began to conquer, loot and burn cities. The Bronze Age in China traverses
936-419: A similar site was discovered at Schöneck-Kilianstädten, with the remains of the victims showing "a pattern of intentional mutilation". While the presence of such massacre sites in the context of Early Neolithic Europe is undisputed, diverging definitions of "warfare proper" (i.e. planned campaigns sanctioned by society as opposed to spontaneous massacres) has led to scholarly debate on the existence of warfare in
1008-433: A social agreement between individuals, these principles would be the expected basis of such an agreement. Thus, these principles should form the basis of real, modern societies since everyone should consent to them if society were organized from scratch in fair agreements. Rawls' Harvard colleague Robert Nozick countered the liberal A Theory of Justice with the libertarian Anarchy, State, and Utopia , also grounded in
1080-403: A state is purely hypothetical. It never did, nor can exist; as it is inconsistent with the preservation and perpetuation of the race. It is, therefore, a great misnomer to call it the state of nature . Instead of being the natural state of man, it is, of all conceivable states, the most opposed to his nature—most repugnant to his feelings, and most incompatible with his wants. His natural state is,
1152-647: Is due to differences in archaeology resulting in less evidence being likely to survive to be analysed compared to other eras. Since Paleolithic humans lived in small, mobile bands, with low population densities and less durable structures, while also existing further back in history, this results in a lower probability of finding clear evidence as well as that evidence not decaying by the modern day. Furthermore, humans only began to bury their dead 150,000 years ago and not all cultures did so (some preferring to remove them by cremation or exposure), limiting remains that can be found. The absence of fortifications could also be due to
1224-490: Is found in Les Dogue, Ares del Maestrat , Castellón, Valencia. At Val del Charco del Agua Amarga, Alcañiz , Aragon, seven archers with plumes on their heads are fleeing a group of eight archers running in pursuit. Early war was influenced by the development of bows , maces , and slings . The bow seems to have been the most important weapon in early warfare, in that it enabled attacks to be launched with far less risk to
1296-415: Is no clear consensus as to what caused their extinction within the current scientific community. Kelly believes that this period of "Paleolithic warlessness" persisted until well after the appearance of Homo sapiens some 315,000 years ago, ending only at the occurrence of economic and social shifts associated with sedentism , when new conditions incentivized organized raiding of settlements. None of
1368-443: Is the preservation of the society and the self. The formation of law within society is the reflection and application of reason for Montesquieu. Hobbes' view was challenged in the eighteenth century by Jean-Jacques Rousseau , who claimed that Hobbes was taking socialized people and simply imagining them living outside of the society in which they were raised. He affirmed instead that people were neither good nor bad, but were born as
1440-460: The Chalcolithic (Copper Age) saw the introduction of copper weapons. Organised warfare between early city states was in existence by the mid-5th millennium BC. Excavations at Mersin , Anatolia show the presence of fortifications and soldiers' quarters by 4300 BC. Excavation work undertaken in 2005 and 2006 has shown that Hamoukar was destroyed by warfare by around 3500 BC-—probably
1512-711: The Hittite Empire ruled much of Anatolia. Chariots appear in the 20th century BC, and become central to warfare in the Ancient Near East from the 17th century BC. The Hyksos and Kassite invasions mark the transition to the Late Bronze Age. Ahmose I defeated the Hyksos and re-established Egyptian control of Nubia and Canaan , territories again defended by Ramesses II at the Battle of Kadesh ,
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#17327658142871584-559: The original position . The original position is a hypothetical state of nature used as a thought experiment . People in the original position have no society and are under a veil of ignorance that prevents them from knowing how they may benefit from society. They lack foreknowledge of their intelligence, wealth, or abilities. Rawls reasons that people in the original position would want a society where they had their basic liberties protected and where they had some economic guarantees as well. If society were to be constructed from scratch through
1656-473: The (human) world could be compared to that among birds and beasts. — Chapter 3 - 1 His proposal was to unify rules according to a single moral system or standard (fa, 法) that can be used by anyone: calculating benefit of each act. In that way, the ruler of the state and his subjects will have the same moral system; cooperation and joint efforts will be the rule. Later his proposal would be strongly rejected by Confucianism (especially Mencius ) because of
1728-491: The 12th century BC, between c. 1200 and 1150. It was sudden, violent, and culturally disruptive for many Bronze Age civilizations, and it brought a sharp economic decline to regional powers, notably ushering in the Greek Dark Ages . Historian Robert Drews argues for the appearance of massed infantry , using newly developed weapons and armour, such as cast rather than forged spearheads and long swords ,
1800-656: The Late Mesolithic to Early Neolithic period in Europe. Iberian cave art of the Mesolithic shows explicit scenes of battle between groups of archers. A group of three archers encircled by a group of four is found in Cova del Roure, Morella la Vella , Castellón , Valencia. A depiction of a larger battle (which may, however, date to the early Neolithic), in which eleven archers are attacked by seventeen running archers,
1872-513: The Latin phrase ( bellum omnium contra omnes ) meaning "war of all against all", in De Cive . Within the state of nature, there is neither personal property nor injustice since there is no law, except for certain natural precepts discovered by reason (" laws of nature "): the first of which is "that every man ought to endeavour peace, as far as he has hope of obtaining it" ( Leviathan , Ch. XIV); and
1944-474: The Origin of Justice and Property" that if mankind were universally benevolent, we would not hold Justice to be a virtue: "’tis only from the selfishness and confin’d generosity of men, along with the scanty provision nature has made for his wants, that justice derives its origin." John C. Calhoun , in his A Disquisition on Government (1851), wrote that a state of nature is merely hypothetical and argues that
2016-418: The Origin of War . For the purposes of this article, "prehistoric war" will be broadly defined as a state of organized lethal aggression between autonomous preliterate communities. According to cultural anthropologist and ethnographer Raymond C. Kelly , population density among the earliest hunter-gatherer societies of Homo erectus was probably low enough to avoid armed conflict. The development of
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2160-402: The attacker when compared to the risk involved in melee combat. While there are no cave paintings of battles between men armed with clubs, the development of the bow is concurrent with the first known depictions of organized warfare consisting of clear illustrations of two or more groups of men attacking each other. These figures are arrayed in lines and columns with a distinctly garbed leader at
2232-411: The beginning of human life, when there was yet no law and government, the custom was "everybody according to his rule (yi, 義)." Accordingly each man had his own rule, two men had two different rules and ten men had eleven different rules -- the more people the more different notions. And everybody approved his own moral views and disapproved the views of others, and so arose mutual disapproval among men. As
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2304-786: The bodies at Nataruk were not interred, but were preserved in the positions the individuals had died at the edge of a lagoon. However, evidence of blunt-force cranial trauma and lack of interment have been called into question, casting doubt upon the assertion that the site represents early intragroup violence. The oldest rock art depicting acts of violence between hunter-gatherers in Northern Australia has been tentatively dated to 10,000 years ago. The earliest, limited evidence for war in Mesolithic Europe likewise dates to ca. 10,000 years ago, and episodes of warfare appear to remain "localized and temporarily restricted" during
2376-433: The civil power which exists to enforce contracts and the laws of nature generally. Between nations, however, no such power exists and therefore nations have the same rights to preserve themselves—including making war—as individuals possessed. Such a conclusion led some writers to the idea of an association of nations or worldwide civil society , an example being Immanuel Kant 's work on perpetual peace . Rawls also examines
2448-499: The concept is self-contradictory and that political states naturally always existed. It is, indeed, difficult to explain how an opinion so destitute of all sound reason, ever could have been so extensively entertained. . . . I refer to the assertion, that all men are equal in the state of nature; meaning, by a state of nature, a state of individuality, supposed to have existed prior to the social and political state; and in which men lived apart and independent of each other. . . . But such
2520-542: The day, like Robert Filmer . In fact, Locke's First Treatise is entirely a response to Filmer's Patriarcha , and takes a step by step method to refuting Filmer's theory set out in Patriarcha . The conservative party at the time had rallied behind Filmer's Patriarcha , whereas the Whigs, scared of another persecution of Protestants, rallied behind the theory set out by Locke in his Two Treatises of Government as it gave
2592-429: The development of military infrastructure , while military production and logistics were supervised directly from the palatial centers. The most identifiable piece of Mycenaean armor was the boar's tusk helmet . In general, most features of the later hoplite panoply of classical Greek antiquity, were already known to Mycenaean Greece. The Late Bronze Age collapse was a time of widespread societal collapse during
2664-483: The earliest urban warfare attested so far in the archaeological record of the Near East . Continued excavations in 2008 and 2010 expand on that. Archaeological evidence suggests that Proto-Indo-Iranian-speaking Abashevo society was intensely warlike. Mass graves reveal that inter-tribal battles involved hundreds of warriors of both sides. Warfare appears to have been more frequent in the late Abashevo period, and it
2736-682: The edge of historicity, its study relying primarily on archaeology with the help of only fragmentary written accounts. There are around 3,300 structures that can be classed as hillforts or similar "defended enclosures" within Britain. Hillforts in Britain are known from the Bronze Age, but the great period of hillfort construction was during the British Iron Age , between 700 BC and the Roman conquest of Britain in 43 AD. The reason for
2808-403: The emergence of hillforts in Britain, and their purpose, has been a subject of debate. It has been argued that they could have been military sites constructed in response to invasion from continental Europe, sites built by invaders, or a military reaction to social tensions caused by an increasing population and consequent pressure on agriculture. In warlike cultures, war is often ritualized with
2880-600: The extinction of the Neanderthals have been offered by several authors, including Jared Diamond and Ronald Wright . The hypothesis that early humans violently replaced Neanderthals was first proposed by French paleontologist Marcellin Boule (the first person to publish an analysis of a Neanderthal) in 1912. However, several scholars have formed alternative theories as to why the Neanderthals died out, and there
2952-406: The fact that fortifications would be inefficient to construct for society that is primarily nomadic and that only spends a short period of time in one place. Kissel et al. argue that while the general scarcity of evidence from the period suggests warfare may not have been common, it does not support the hypothesis that war was absent. The most ancient archaeological record of what could have been
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3024-427: The front. Some paintings even portray still-recognizable tactics like flankings and envelopments . However, it has also been argued that these paintings should be interpreted with caution due to the fact that it is not self-evident that the cultures that made them intended to depict actual events or if they were intended to be symbolic or otherwise possess a different meaning. Systemic warfare appears to have been
3096-602: The greatest chariot battle in history. The raids of the Sea Peoples and the renewed disintegration of Egypt in the Third Intermediate Period marks the end of the Bronze Age. The Tollense valley battlefield is the oldest evidence of a large scale battle in Europe. More than 4,000 warriors from Central Europe fought in a battle on the site in the 13th century BC. Mycenaean Greeks ( c. 1600 – c. 1100 BC ) invested in
3168-417: The hypothetical reasons for entering a state of society by establishing a nation-state?". In some versions of social contract theory, there are freedoms, but no rights in the state of nature; and, by way of the social contract, people create societal rights and obligations. In other versions of social contract theory, society imposes restrictions (law, custom, tradition, etc.) that limit the natural rights of
3240-399: The idea of the state of nature. He developed the idea to defend the need for a single overall ruler. According to Mozi, in the state of nature, each person has their own moral rules ( yi , 義). As a result, people were unable to reach agreements and resources were wasted. Since Mozi promoted ways of strengthening and unifying the state (li, 利 ), such natural dis-organisation was rejected: In
3312-401: The immigrant skeletons, but within the local group of skeletons there were only men and children. They concluded that the absence of women among the local skeletons meant that they were regarded as somehow special, thus they were spared execution and captured instead. The capture of women may have indeed been the primary motive for the fierce conflict between the men. Other speculations about
3384-415: The international stage. Rawls develops eight principles for how a people should act on an international stage. Within international relations theory , anarchy is the state of affairs wherein nations exist without a higher power to govern them. The three principal schools of international relations theory hold different beliefs about anarchy and how to approach it. Realism approaches global politics as if
3456-414: The laws and institutions of the country where born, and under whose protection they draw their first breath. Karl Marx's concept of primitive communism —or the economic mode of production before the development of class systems—may be seen as analogous to the state of nature. John Rawls used what amounted to an artificial state of nature. To develop his theory of justice , Rawls places everyone in
3528-464: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=First_War&oldid=1245299179 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Prehistoric warfare The existence—and the definition—of war in humanity's hypothetical state of nature has been
3600-735: The many cave paintings of the Upper Paleolithic depicts people attacking other people explicitly, but there are depictions of human beings pierced with arrows both of the Aurignacian - Périgordian (roughly 30,000 years old) and the early Magdalenian (c. 17,000 years old), possibly representing "spontaneous confrontations over game resources" in which hostile trespassers were killed; however, other interpretations, including capital punishment , human sacrifice , assassination or systemic warfare cannot be ruled out. It has also been suggested that lack of evidence of Paleolithic warfare
3672-535: The narrow sense prior to the development of city states in 20th-century archaeology. In the summary of Heath (2017), accumulating archaeology has made it "increasingly harder" to argue for the absence of organised warfare in Neolithic Europe. Bioarchaeologists have found from the skeletal remains of more than 2,300 early farmers from 180 sites in northwestern Europe between 8,000 and 4,000 years ago that more than one in ten suffered weapon injuries. During
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#17327658142873744-585: The period of expansion of hunter-gatherer groups associated with the Pitted Ware culture in southern Scandinavia, the Funnelbeaker farmers constructed a number of defensive palisades , which may mean that the two peoples were in conflict with each other. There is archaeological evidence of high levels of violence among the people of the Pitted Ware culture. The 8500-year-old Kennewick Man ,
3816-414: The preference of benefit over morals. The pure state of nature, or "the natural condition of mankind", was described by the 17th century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan and his earlier work De Cive . Hobbes argued that natural inequalities between humans are not so great as to give anyone clear superiority; and thus all must live in constant fear of loss or violence; so that "during
3888-654: The protohistoric and historic periods. Battles utilizing foot and chariot infantry took place regularly between powers in the North China Plain. Early Iron Age events like the Dorian invasion , Greek colonialism and their interaction with Phoenician and Etruscan forces lie within the prehistoric period. Germanic warrior societies of the Migration period engaged in endemic warfare (see also Thorsberg moor and Illerup Ådal ). Anglo-Saxon warfare lies on
3960-469: The reasons for violence among Linear Pottery Culture settlements in Neolithic Europe include vengeance, conflicts over land and resources, and kidnapping of slaves . Some of these theories related to the lack of resources are supported by the discovery that various fortifications bordering indigenously inhabited areas appear to have not been in use for very long. A mass burial site at Schletz
4032-440: The second is "that a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defence of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men as he would allow other men against himself" ( loc. cit. ). From here, Hobbes developed the way out of the state of nature into political society and government by mutual contracts . According to Hobbes,
4104-611: The site of Nataruk in Turkana, Kenya, numerous 10,000-year-old human remains were found with possible evidence of major traumatic injuries, including obsidian bladelets embedded in the skeletons, that should have been lethal. According to the original study, published in January 2016, the region was a "fertile lakeshore landscape sustaining a substantial population of hunter-gatherers" where pottery had been found, suggesting storage of food and sedentism . The initial report concluded that
4176-426: The social and political—the one for which his Creator made him, and the only one in which he can preserve and perfect his race. As, then, there never was such a state as the, so-called, state of nature, and never can be, it follows, that men, instead of being born in it, are born in the social and political state; and of course, instead of being born free and equal, are born subject, not only to parental authority, but to
4248-487: The state of nature and civil society to be opposites of each other, and the need for civil society comes in part from the perpetual existence of the state of nature. This view of the state of nature is partly deduced from Christian belief (unlike Hobbes, whose philosophy is not dependent upon any prior theology). Although it may be natural to assume that Locke was responding to Hobbes, Locke never refers to Hobbes by name, and may instead have been responding to other writers of
4320-553: The state of nature between nations. In his work the Law of Peoples , Rawls applies a modified version of his original position thought experiment to international relationships. Rawls says that peoples, not states, form the basic unit that should be examined. States should be encouraged to follow the principles from Rawls' earlier A Theory of Justice . Democracy seems like it would be the most logical means of accomplishing these goals, but benign non-democracies should be seen as acceptable at
4392-447: The state of nature exists at all times among independent countries, over whom there is no law except for those same precepts or laws of nature ( Leviathan , Chapters XIII, XXX end). His view of the state of nature helped to serve as a basis for theories of international law and relations and even some theories about domestic relations. John Locke considers the state of nature in his Second Treatise on Civil Government written around
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#17327658142874464-426: The state of nature tradition. Nozick argued that a minimalist state of property rights and basic law enforcement would develop out of a state of nature without violating anyone's rights or using force. Mutual agreements among individuals rather than social contract would lead to this minimal state. In Hobbes' view, once a civil government is instituted, the state of nature has disappeared between individuals because of
4536-407: The state. Human beings would also at first feel themselves to be impotent and weak. As a result, humans would not be likely to attack each other in this state. Next, humans would seek nourishment and, out of fear and impulse, would eventually unite to create society. Once society was created, a state of war would ensue amongst societies, which would all have been created the same way. The purpose of war
4608-545: The suppos'd state of nature; provided they allow it to be a mere philosophical fiction, which never had, and never could have any reality." Hume's ideas about human nature expressed in the Treatise suggest that he would be happy with neither Hobbes' nor his contemporary Rousseau's thought-experiments. He explicitly derides as incredible the hypothetical humanity described in Hobbes' Leviathan . Additionally, he argues in "Of
4680-416: The term state of nature describes the hypothetical way of life that existed before humans organised themselves into societies or civilisations . Philosophers of the state of nature theory propose that there was a historical period before societies existed, and seek answers to the questions: "What was life like before civil society ?", "How did government emerge from such a primitive start?", and "What are
4752-438: The throwing- spear and ambush hunting techniques required cooperation, which made potential violence between hunting parties very costly. The need to prevent competition for resources by maintenance of low population densities may have accelerated the migration out of Africa of H. erectus some 1.8 million years ago as a natural consequence of conflict avoidance. Hypotheses which suggest that genocidal violence may have caused
4824-421: The time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man". In this state, every person has a natural right to do anything one thinks necessary for preserving one's own life, and life is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short " ( Leviathan, Chapters XIII–XIV). Hobbes described this natural condition with
4896-656: The time of the Exclusion Crisis in England during the 1680s. For Locke, in the state of nature all men are free "to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature." (2nd Tr., §4). "The state of Nature has a law of Nature to govern it", and that law is reason. Locke believes that reason teaches that "no one ought to harm another in his life, liberty, and or property" (2nd Tr., §6) ; and that transgressions of this may be punished. Locke describes
4968-470: The violence, if dated correctly, likely occurred in the wake of a local ecological crisis . Initially, Jebel Seheba was believed to be the site of a singular battle. However re-examination of the remains has superseded this thesis. The co-occurrence of healed and unhealed lesions among 41 individuals was found to strongly support sporadic and recurrent violence between the social groups of the Nile valley. At
5040-463: The world's nations were each an individual under a state of nature: it tends to take anarchy for granted, and does not see a solution to it as possible or even necessarily desirable. Liberalism claims that anarchy may be mitigated through the spread of liberal democracy and the use of international organizations , thus creating a global civil society; this approach may be summed up by the words of George H. W. Bush , who sought to create "a world where
5112-487: Was also fortified, which serves as evidence of violent conflict among tribes and means that these fortifications were built as a form of defense against aggressors. The massacre of Schletz occurred at the same time as the massacre at Talheim and several other massacres. More than 200 Neolithic people were killed during the massacre in the Linear Pottery settlement area of Schletz 7000 years ago. More recently,
5184-795: Was in this turbulent environment in which the Sintashta culture emerged. The spread of spoke-wheeled chariots has been closely associated with early Indo-Iranian migrations. The earliest known chariots have been found in Sintashta culture burial sites, and the culture is considered a strong candidate for the origin of the technology, which spread throughout the Old World and played an important role in ancient warfare. Military conquests expanded city states under Egyptian control. Babylonia and later Assyria built empires in Mesopotamia while
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