Introduction: the terrible tide of war / Philip de Souza --
War before history / R. Brian Ferguson --
Ancient Egyptian warfare / Ian Shaw and Daniel Boatright --
Ancient Near Eastern warfare / Nigel Tallis --
The might of the Persian empire / Nicholas Sekunda --
Minoan and Mycenaean warfare / Alan Peatfield --
War in Archaic and Classical Greece / Hams vam Wees --
Alexander the Great and Hellenistic warfare / David Potter --
Armies of the Roman Republic / Nathan Rosenstein --
Celtic and Iberian warrior cultures / Louis Rawlings --
Imperial Roman warfare / Jon Coulston --
Rome and the barbarians / Hugh Elton --
Central Asia from the Scythians to the Huns / Jon Coulston --
Warfare in ancient South Asia / Robin Coningham and Mark Manuel --
Warfare in ancient China / Charles A. Peterson --
Warfare in early Korea and Japan / Gina Barnes --
Mesoamerica from the Olmecs to the Aztecs / Ross Hassig --
Ancient warfare in the Andes / Brian S. Bauer, Elizabeth Arkush and Joe Szymczak.
