THE AGE OF BRONZE 
ment of warfare. Thanks to bronze weapons and tools, 
the desultory sort of skirmishing between relatively small 
bodies of warriors which characterized the New Stone Age 
both in the Old World and in the New, gave place to regu- 
lar armies, equipped and drilled in something approaching 
uniform fashion (Fig. 98). New means of waging war 
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After Moret and Davy 
came into being, methods of conducting sieges of walled 
towns, ways of raising, feeding, and maneuvering bodies 
of men. 
The most Chnesetenstre engine of war during the Bronze 
Age was the war chariot. We have already seen how the 
cart developed, and also how during the New Stone Age 
the peoples living about the wide-spreading grasslands of 
central Asia and eastern Europe had begun to domesticate 
the horse. 
Now between these tribes, only a little more advanced 
than the Plains Indians of America, and the much more 
highly civilized peoples inhabiting the fertile river plains 
of southwestern Asia and Asia Minor, stood great barriers 
of mountains and forests and marshes, deserts and lakes 
and seas, such as man in the New Stone Age could scarcely 
traverse, at least in any large numbers. A time came, 
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