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army sizes, antiquity and medieval (hexbear.net)
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

TBH, late Roman Empire suffered an intense depopulation due to collapsing birth rates.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

but horses can't live like this. aside from likely 2-3x exaggeration of infantry, they are at least plausible in that roman had that many people around.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You are right about the horses, I don't think the Romans had that much horse, because even for agriculture they used oxen.

That being said, look up iraj castle, that's the ruins of a late antiquity military installation meant to house 10k cavalry. There seem to be many smaller structures of similar design all over central asia.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

As well as global cooling and a black plague. It was not fun times