This article is about the board game. For the fictional alien race in the Stargate universe, see Ancient (Stargate).
Ancients is a board-based wargame designed by Bill Banks. It consists of a low-complexity tactical combat system that allows players to play out battles in a pre-gunpowder setting.
Ancient history is the study of significant cultural and political events from the beginning of human history until the Early Middle Ages.
Ancient Rome contributed greatly to the development of law, war, art, literature, architecture, and language in the Western world, and its history continues to have a major influence on the world today.
Ancient India is usually taken to refer to the "golden age" of classical Hindu culture, as reflected in Sanskrit literature, beginning around 500 BCE with the sixteen monarchies and 'republics' known as the Mahajanapadas, stretched across the Indo-Gangetic plains from modern-day Afghanistan to Bangladesh.
It was spoken in the independent Greek city states of Classical Greece, in Alexander the Great's empire and in the kingdoms of the Diadochi, it was the second official language of the classical Roman Empire, and it was the official language of the Eastern Roman Empire in its early years (later evolving into Byzantine Greek).
Although ancient pronunciation can never be reconstructed with certainty, Greek in particular is very well documented from this period, and there is little disagreement among linguists as to the general nature of the sounds that the letters represented.
In Ancient Greek nouns (including proper nouns) have five cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative and vocative), three genders (masculine, feminine and neuter), and three numbers (singular, dual and plural).
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