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.
