Commanders of roughly 500 to 1500 CE: Saladin leading Ayyubid Egypt and Syria, Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire's generals, and the commanders of the Crusades and the Frankish kingdoms. Belongs here: a commander whose campaigns are attested in the feudal, Crusader or early caliphate world. Does not belong here: a commander of a centralized gunpowder-era state, who belongs to Early Modern.
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1. War and Military Atlas Periodization (Ruling 761)
InteractiveAtlas owner ruling registerWar and Military DataBrief, SubLabel convention paragraph, boundaries sentence
Boundaries: Ancient below 500 CE, Medieval 500 to 1499, Early Modern 1500 to 1774, Modern 1775 onward (the 1775 cutover, not the round year 1800, matches the American Revolutionary War already being tagged Modern in the live data).
War and Military DataBrief, SubLabel convention paragraph, boundaries sentence, end-year clause
Boundaries: Ancient below 500 CE, Medieval 500 to 1499, Early Modern 1500 to 1774, Modern 1775 onward (the 1775 cutover, not the round year 1800, matches the American Revolutionary War already being tagged Modern in the live data).
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