By Duncan B Campbell
Siege equipment first seemed within the West in the course of the Carthaginian invasion of Sicily within the late-5th century BC, within the kind of siege towers and battering rams. After a 50-year hiatus those guns of warfare re-appeared within the Macedonian armies of Philip II and Alexander the good, a interval that observed the peak in their improvement within the historical international. The adventure of struggle with either the Carthaginians in the course of the later-3rd century BC, and Philip V of Macedon throughout the early-2nd century BC, eventually brought on the creation of the siege tower and the battering ram to the Roman arsenal. This name strains the advance and use of those guns around the complete of this era.
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