Have there ever been times in ancient history like the start

>>3288099
The idea of a professional army.

>>3288099
Domestication of horses

the romans started to use the corvus in the first punic war, thus they introduced marines to warfare and ended punic hegemony over the seas

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>>3288099
I imagine it was also quite a change when natives of America or southern Africa met European weaponry the first time.

>>3288099
Do we have any record of the first Chinese battle to utilize gunpowder weapons? Shooting little stone balls out of reinforced bamboo canes must not have been all that accurate or powerful or rapid, but I imagine it must've been fucking terrifying all the same.