Wars in the Ancient World (Prehistory to 600 CE) covers important battles from the Fall of Jericho (ca. 8000 BCE) - the earliest recorded example of organized warfare - to the wars of the Chalukya Dynasty in the sixth century, which successfully established Chalukya hegemony over about a third of the Indian subcontinent.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• Entries
• A
• Achaean War
• Aethelfrith’s Wars
• Agathocles’ War against Carthage
• Alaric’s first invasion of Italy
• Alaric’s second invasion of Italy
• Alemannic invasion of Gaul
• Alexander’s advance into central Asia
• Alexander’s campaigns of consolidation
• Alexander’s invasion of India
• Alexander’s occupation of Egypt
• Alexander’s Persian campaign
• Alexander’s siege of Gaza
• Arcadian War
• Archidamian War
• Argive War
• Ariovistusian campaign
• Arthur’s defensive wars
• Aryan Invasions
• Assyrian conquest of Egypt
• Assyrian conquest of Palestine and Syria
• Assyrian-Hurrian Wars
• Assyrian Wars, ca. 1032 BCE–ca. 746 BCE
• Assyrian Wars, ca. 1200 BCE–1032 BCE
• Assyrian Wars, ca. 1244 BCE–1200 BCE
• Assyrian Wars, ca. 746 BCE–609 BCE
• Attila’s eastern conquests
• Attila’s first invasion of the Eastern Empire
• Attila’s invasion of the Western Empire
• Attila’s second invasion of the Eastern Empire
• Aurelian’s war against Tetricus
• Aurelian’s War against Zenobia
• Avar wars for empire
• Avar-Xiongnu War
• B
• Babylonian Captivity
• Babylonian revolt
• Bactrian-Parthian War
• Bactrian-Syrian War
• Ban Chao’s central Asia campaigns
• Bar Kokhba’s revolt
• Batavian revolt
• Battle of Marathon
• Battle of Milvian Bridge
• Belgian campaign
• Bonifacius’s revolt
• Boudicca’s revolt
• Brasidas’s Invasion
• Bulgar and Slav raids
• Burgundian-Frankish War, 500
• Burgundian-Frankish War, 523–534
• Byzantine-Avar War, 595–602
• C
• Caesar’s war in Pontus
• Carthaginian Civil War
• Carthaginian-Syracusan War
• Carthaginian war against Pyrrhus of Epirus
• Carthaginian wars of expansion
• Celtiberian Wars
• Celtic sack of Rome
• Chinese-Cham War, 431–446
• Chinese conquest of Nam Viet
• Chremonidean War
• Cimmerian invasion of Phrygia
• conquest of Pergamum
• conquests of the Gupta dynasty
• conquests of the Mauryan Empire
• Corinthian-Corcyrean War
• Corinthian War
• D
• Damascene War
• Diodotus’s revolt
• Dorian invasions
• E
• early Etruscan-Roman wars
• early Saxon raids
• early Visigothic raids on the Roman Empire
• Eastern Empire’s African expedition
• Eastern Empire’s Italian expedition against John the Usurper
• Egyptian revolt
• Euthydemus’s revolt
• F
• fall of Assyria
• fall of Babylon
• fall of Crete
• fall of Jericho
• fall of Nineveh
• Fifth Roman-Gothic War
• Fifth Syrian-Egyptian War
• final pacification of Gaul
• Firmus’s revolt
• First Battle of Megiddo
• First Dacian War
• First Dionysius War
• First Illyrian War
• First Macedonian War
• First Messenian War
• First Mithradatic War
• First Peloponnesian War
• First Punic War
• First Roman-Gothic War
• first Roman invasion of Britain
• First Sacred War
• First Samnite War
• First Servile War
• First Syrian-Egyptian War
• first Xiongnu invasion of Turkestan
• Five Pecks of Rice
• Fourth Dionysius War
• Fourth Macedonian War
• Fourth Roman-Gothic War
• Fourth Sacred War
• Fourth Syrian-Egyptian War
• Frankish-Alemannic War
• G
• Gaiseric’s early wars of expansion
• Gaiseric’s later wars of expansion
• Germanic campaign
• Ghassanid-Lakhmid Wars
• Gothic-Sarmatian War
• Gothic War
• Great Roman Civil War
• Greco-Bactrian Invasion of India
• H
• Hammurabi’s unification of Mesopotamia
• Hannibal’s destruction of Himera
• Hannibal’s sack of Acragas
• Helvetian campaign
• Hephthalite invasion of Gandhara
• Himilco’s War
• Hittite conquest of Anatolia
• Hittite-Hurrian Wars
• Hun invasion of the Gothic Empire
• Hun invasion of Thrace
• Hurrian conquests
• Hyksos invasion of Egypt
• I
• invasion of Britain by Angles, Saxons, and Jutes
• invasion of Parthia by Antiochus III
• Ionian revolt
• Irish raids in Britain
• Isaurian War
• J
• Jewish-Philistine Wars
• Jewish Revolt, 115–117
• Jewish Revolt, 66 CE–73 CE
• Jin dynastic wars
• Jugurthine War
• Justinian’s First Persian War
• Justinian’s Second Persian War
• K
• King David’s wars of conquest
• L
• Lamian War
• later Etruscan-Roman wars
• Latin War
• Lelantine War
• Lombard conquest of central Danube valley
• Lombard invasion of Italy
• Lusitanian War
• Ly Bon’s Rebellion
• M
• Majorian’s barbarian campaigns
• March of the Ten Thousand
• Maximian’s revolt
• Median-Lydian War
• Median-Persian revolt
• Menander’s wars of expansion
• Morinian and Menapiian campaign
• mutiny of Alexander’s army at the Hyphasis
• N
• Nebuchadnezzar’s campaigns
• Nika revolt
• Numantian War
• O
• Octavian’s war against Antony
• Octavian’s war against Pompey
• Odaenathus’s Gothic campaign
• Odaenathus’s invasion of Persia
• P
• Pannonian revolts
• Parthian conquest of Media
• Persian Civil War, 522 BCE–521 BCE
• Persian conquest
• Persian invasion of Greece
• Persian-Kushan War
• Persian-Lydian War
• Persian revolts
• Persian Wars
• Philip of Macedon’s northern conquests
• Pompey’s defeat of the pirates
• Procopius’s eastern revolt
• R
• “Red Eyebrow” Rebellion
• revolt in central Gaul
• revolt of Arbogast and Eugenius
• revolt of Catiline
• revolt of Cyrus
• revolt of Lepidus
• revolt of the Belgae
• revolt of the Gauls
• revolt of the Maccabees
• revolt of Thebes
• Roman-Alemannic War
• Roman-Armenian War, 72 BCE–66 BCE
• Roman-Armenian War, 93 BCE–92 BCE
• Roman Civil War, 193–197
• Roman Civil War, 235–268
• Roman Civil War, 238
• Roman Civil War, 284–285
• Roman Civil War, 306–307
• Roman Civil War, 313
• Roman Civil War, 314–324
• Roman Civil War, 350–351
• Roman Civil War, 360–361
• Roman Civil War, 43 BCE–31 BCE
• Roman Civil War, 68 CE–69 CE
• Roman Civil War, 88 BCE–82 BCE
• Roman conquest of Britain
• Roman Eastern War, 113–117
• Roman Eastern War, 162–165
• Roman Northern Frontier Wars
• Roman-Parthian War, 195–202
• Roman-Parthian War, 55 BCE–36 BCE
• Roman-Parthian War, 56 CE–63 CE
• Roman-Persian War, 230–233
• Roman-Persian War, 241–244
• Roman-Persian War, 257–261
• Roman-Persian War, 282–283
• Roman-Persian War, 295–297
• Roman-Persian War, 337–363
• Roman-Persian War, 421–422
• Roman-Persian War, 441
• Roman-Persian War, 502–506
• Roman-Persian War, 572–591
• Roman war against Pyrrhus of Epirus
• Roman war with the Cimbri and Teutones
• Roman war with the Quadi and Sarmatians
• Roman war with the Vandals
• Roman wars with Veii
• S
• Saka and Andhra Wars
• Sargon’s conquest of Sumer
• Saxon campaigns in south-central Britain
• Second Battle of Megiddo
• Second Dacian War
• Second Dionysius War
• Second Illyrian War
• Second Macedonian War
• Second Messenian War
• Second Mithradatic War
• Second Peloponnesian War
• Second Punic War
• Second Roman-Gothic War
• second Roman invasion of Britain
• Second Sacred War
• Second Samnite War
• Second Servile War
• Second Syrian-Egyptian War
• second Xiongnu invasion of Turkestan
• Sertorian War
• Shang-Zhou dynastic wars
• Shu dynastic wars
• siege of Masada
• siege of Tyre
• Social War, 219 BCE–217 BCE
• Social War, 357 BCE–355 BCE
• Social War of 91–88 BCE
• Spartan-Achaean War, 189 BCE–188 BCE
• Spartan-Achaean War, 193 BCE–192 BCE
• Spartan-Achaean War, 228 BCE–226 BCE
• Spartan revolt
• Stilicho’s wars with the Visigoths
• Syrian-Parthian War, 130 BCE–127 BCE
• Syrian-Parthian War, 141 BCE–139 BCE
• Syrian-Roman War
• Syrian war with Pergamum
• T
• Theban-Spartan War
• Theodoric’s invasion of Italy
• Theodoric’s war with Odoacer
• Third Dionysius War
• Third Macedonian War
• Third Messenian War
• Third Mithradatic War
• Third Punic War
• Third Roman-Gothic War
• Third Sacred War
• Third Samnite War
• Third Servile War
• Third Syrian-Egyptian War
• Timarchus’s revolt
• Timoleon’s War
• Trojan War
• Trung Sisters’ Rebellion
• V
• Vandal invasion of Africa
• Vandal resurgence in Spain
• Vandal-Roman War in North Africa
• Vandal sack of Rome
• Veneti campaign
• Visigoth invasion of Gaul
• Visigoth invasion of Spain, 415–419
• Visigoth invasion of Spain, 456
• Visigoth wars of expansion
• Visigothic-Frankish War
• Visigothic sack of Rome
• W
• War of Demetrius
• wars of the Chalukya dynasty
• Wars of the Diadochoi
• Wu dynastic wars
• Wudi conquests
• X
• Xiongnu invasion of China
• Y
• Yellow Turbans rebellion
• Z
• Zenobia’s conquest of Egypt
• Support Materials
• Chronology
• Contributors and Reviewers
• Selected Bibliography