... for siege operations and for the rather primitive Roman "artillery", which consisted of big catapults and complicated machines a little like crossbows. These were mainly used for hurling big rocks and stones at the walls of a defense place. The engineers also had to build the moveable towers that were used in sieges - the Roman soldiers went up inside these towers so that ... they could see over the walls of a fortified! place and shoot their stones and arrows into it. The engineers also made the scaling ladders that were used for getting over walls. The Roman soldiers won their battles...

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... of the people, rather than what one man had to say as was the case with the Chinese. These three schools of thought may be seen as the primary stepping stones upon which the next level of the organizational system evolved, that is, the Industrial Revolution. THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: With the advent of the 19th century, humanity began to realize the ... ...

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