Vulture12

Vulture12 t1_ix5xy83 wrote

Some digging on Wikipedia shows that the Neo-Assyrians (immediately preceding the Neo-Babylonians) could field an army of 300k men and earlier than that in Egypt Rameses II had an army of 100k men (both pages cite books for their numbers). It doesn't sound like your estimate is unreasonable at all and 2000 is definitely too low.

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