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What do you think it was exactly that made Julius Caesar so formidable in battle?

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How was Rome able to survive the 2nd Punic War and continue their war effort (tending to the fields, producing/exporting goods, importing grain, taxing its citizens, fielding more armies) despite losing hundreds of thousands of their men, almost all of them being land-owning citizens?

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What did the western Mediterranean look like during the late Bronze-age?

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How were the Germanic tribes of Cimbri and Teuton able to hold together such a large force for the entirety of the Cimbrian War before finally being defeated by Rome in 101 BC?

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When did iron weapons overtake bronze weapons completely?

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What do you think it was exactly that made Julius Caesar so formidable in battle?	1145
How was Rome able to survive the 2nd Punic War and continue their war effort (tending to the fields, producing/exporting goods, importing grain, taxing its citizens, fielding more armies) despite losing hundreds of thousands of their men, almost all of them being land-owning citizens?	52
What did the western Mediterranean look like during the late Bronze-age?	17
How were the Germanic tribes of Cimbri and Teuton able to hold together such a large force for the entirety of the Cimbrian War before finally being defeated by Rome in 101 BC?	4
When did iron weapons overtake bronze weapons completely?	2