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In some battles that took place in ancient China, the amount of soldiers claimed to have fought on a single side are over 500,000 men. I’ve always been skeptical of these numbers. Is it possible that ancient Chinese states could field that many soldiers for a single battle?

by /u/Libleftshapiro in /r/AskHistorians

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