I’m curious about the systems they had set up to deliver supplies to armies in the middle ages. Particularily stuff like supplying huge horde armies or cavalry armies. Were they self sufficient? Depended on nearby villages? Huge supply networks? Etc.
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Not really an ELI5 answer, but this blog is fantastic for these sorts of history questions around middle-age and historic armies: https://acoup.blog/
That said, he doesn’t write for 5 year olds.
The 5 year old answer is just taking it from nearby villages though. Pillaging supplies along the way.
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