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The Dark Age, Medieval period didn't really do it. Best they had was scouts. They would spy out the land ahead and look for the enemy etc, then warn the main body so they could attempt to go around, backtrack or order the,selves for battle. If you look at the Napoleonic period though it was...

1. There was really no such thing as permanent armies in countries until around the Napoleonic period, England was one of the first. Most other Countries had militia, civilians that served for a period of time, still usually went home in late spring though. During the medieval period and up...

Hi Ankari, your looking at what was the ending dark age era moving into the medieval period. I'm going to assume your looking at the European area rather than the Middle East. 1066 was the invasion of William the bastard or conquerer from Normandy into England. On that basis the answer to...

Hi Ankari, That depends on which period of history your actually refering to? You would need to pin point a least a rough period, either ancient, darkages, Medieval etc before that could really be answered. Again, that would depend on the period. later periods didn't matter, earlier...