Organized Military Formations
Development of disciplined troop formations and tactics (e.g., phalanx, legion) requiring extensive training and command structures.
Core metadata
- ID: organized_military_formations
- Era: Classical
- First known date: -600 (century)
- Region: Mediterranean, South Asia, East Asia, and other classical societies
- Review status: source_checked
- Maturity: N/A
Prerequisites
- Sibudu Bow-and-Arrow Use (archery)
- Horseback Riding (horseback_riding)
- Iron Working (iron_working)
- Roads (roads)
- Writing (writing)
Dependents
- Combined Arms Tactics (combined_arms_tactics)
- Feudalism (feudalism)
- Fortified Marching Camps (fortified_camps_marching_camps)
- Legionary Tactics (Maniple/Cohort) (legionary_tactics_maniple_cohort)
- Longbow (longbow)
- Military Field Medicine (military_field_medicine)
- Military Signal Flags (military_signal_flags)
- Musketry Formations (musketry_formations)
- Pike and Shot Formations (pike_and_shot_formations)
- Chattel Slavery (slavery_chattel)
- State Armories (state_armories)
Fields
- None.
Node sources
- 5,000 years old Egyptian iron beads made from hammered meteoritic iron (Journal of Archaeological Science, 2013, primary_paper) • Supports: edge, node
Prerequisite edge evidence
Edge/source evidence summary:
- Prerequisite edges: 5
- Average edge confidence: 69%
- Prerequisite sources: 5
- expert_inference: 5
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iron Working (iron_working) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Iron Working provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. |
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| Sibudu Bow-and-Arrow Use (archery) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Archery provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. |
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| Writing (writing) | historical_predecessor | 75% | expert_inference | Writing is an earlier historical predecessor or foundation, not a one-to-one engineering dependency. |
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| Roads (roads) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Roads provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. |
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| Horseback Riding (horseback_riding) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Horseback Riding provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. |
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