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Standing forces of roughly 500 to 1500 CE: feudal levies, Crusader garrisons, the Mongol Empire's decimal-organized cavalry army, and the Ayyubid Sultanate's mixed regular and mamluk force. Belongs here: a force organized on a feudal, tribal-confederation or early-caliphate model. Does not belong here: a centralized professional force raised by an early modern gunpowder state, which belongs to Early Modern.

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