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the_skine t1_ix6geix wrote

Reply to comment by ThoDanII in what was the population of ancient Mesopotamia? by Omastnar

Also, they didn't have large professional armies.

Up until the early 1900s, over 95% of all people worked in agriculture. Many of those men would help plant in the spring, go to war in the summer, harvest in the fall, and tend to their homes and farms in the winter.

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