In the search for ever more impressive and lethal weapons to shock the enemy and bring total victory the armies of ancient Greece, Carthage, and even sometimes Rome turned to the elephant. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/876/elephants-in-greek--roman-warfare/ #History #AgathoclesofSyracuse #AttalidDynasty #BattleofZama

Pergamon (also Pergamum) was a major intellectual and cultural center in Mysia (northwest Asia Minor, modern-day Turkey) which flourished under the Attalid Dynasty (281-133 BCE) during the Hellenistic Period. https://www.worldhistory.org/pergamon/ #History #Anatolia #AttalidDynasty #HellenisticPeriod

In the search for ever more impressive and lethal weapons to shock the enemy and bring total victory the armies of ancient Greece, Carthage, and even sometimes Rome turned to the elephant. Huge, exotic, and frightening the life out of an unprepared enemy they seemed the perfect weapon in an age where developments in warfare were very limited. Unfortunately, impressive though they must have seem...https://www.worldhistory.org/article/876/elephants-in-greek--roman-warfare/ #AgathoclesofSyracuse #AttalidDynasty #BattleofZama #History