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            "description": " The area they occupied was the natural habitat of the Indian elephant, and they supplied other areas with the animal. Elephants used by Demetrius in 190 BC. §REF§Docherty, Paddy. The Khyber Pass: a history of empire and invasion. Union Square Press, 2008. pp.64§REF§"
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            "description": " Although ivory is present at Pirak, it is assumed to be imported and that there were no elephants at Pirak.§REF§Jarrige, J-F. (1979) Fouilles de Pirak. Paris : Diffusion de Boccard.§REF§"
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            "description": " First century BCE historian Diodorus Siculus narrates a battle between a queen of Assyria (considered Shammuramat?) and an Indian polity in which the Indians used elephants.§REF§Diodorus Siculus. Delphi Complete Works of Diodorus Siculus. Delphi Classics.§REF§ In the 9th century BCE king Stabrobates of India used war elephants against a queen of Assyria (considered Shammuramat?).§REF§(Mayor 2014, 289) Adrienne Mayor. Animals in Warfare. Gordon Lindsay Campbell. ed. 2014. The Oxford Handbook of Animals in Classical Thought and Life. Oxford University Press. Oxford.§REF§ Elephants used in warfare in India since at least 1000 BCE.§REF§(Mayor 2014, 290) Adrienne Mayor. Animals in Warfare. Gordon Lindsay Campbell. ed. 2014. The Oxford Handbook of Animals in Classical Thought and Life. Oxford University Press. Oxford.§REF§ If \"the first archaeologically recognizable, large post-Indus urban settlements are not earlier than the fifth century BC ... solidly visible states ... appear in a sudden profusion in the late first millennium B.C.\"§REF§(Ahmed 2014, 64) Mukhtar Ahmed. 2014. Ancient Pakistan - An Archaeological History: Volume V: The End of the Harappan Civilization, and the Aftermath. Foursome Group.§REF§ - who was king Stabrobates of India who used war elephants against a queen of Assyria (considered Shammuramat?) in the 9th century BCE?§REF§(Mayor 2014, 289) Adrienne Mayor. Animals in Warfare. Gordon Lindsay Campbell. ed. 2014. The Oxford Handbook of Animals in Classical Thought and Life. Oxford University Press. Oxford.§REF§ One could infer king Stabrobates, if not based there himself, must have subdued and controlled the Kachi Plain region in order to invade Mesopotamia from 'India'. (Another source says Assyria invaded India and were driven out of Pakistan and India).§REF§(Kistler 2007, 18) John M Kistler. 2007. War Elephants. University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln.§REF§ Diodorus Siculus says this too, queen Semiramis was based in Bactra (Bactria?).§REF§Diodorus Siculus. Delphi Complete Works of Diodorus Siculus. Delphi Classics.§REF§ <i>If king Stabrobates's polity controlled the Kachi Plain then we must code the according to the military technology he possessed. Note: one military historian estimates that the Assyrian army had a strategic range of 2000 km§REF§(Gabriel 2002, 9) Richard A Gabriel. 2002. The Great Armies of Antiquity. Praeger. Westport.§REF§ which places the Indus region in reach of their forces.</i>"
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            "description": " Ghaznavids, another Turkish-Islamic dynasty in Central Asia 977-1186 CE, used elephants and camels.§REF§(Bloom and Blair eds. 2009, 108) Johnathan M Bloom. Sheila S Blair. eds. 2009. Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art &amp; Architecture: Three-Volume Set. Volume I. Abarquh To Dawlat Qatar. Oxford University Press. Oxford.§REF§ Used on Kachi plain. §REF§Kennedy, the Armies of the Caliphs§REF§ \"But there can be little doubt that war-elephants were not used in the same numbers under the Islamic dynasties of India as they were in the early medieval period and before. We have seen that the Arabic sources described the most important ninth- and tenth-century Hindu dynasties as equipped with tens of thousands or more elephants of various kinds. Although it is unlikely that these numbers indicated war-elephants in a state of readiness - they probably included the guessed number of untamed and half-tamed ones -, and although some of the figures are contradictory, they are larger than those of later times. <i>Certainly the Arabs of Sind, the Saffarids, and the later Buyids made almost no use of them at all.\"</i> §REF§(Wink 1997, 102-103) Andre Wink. 1997. Al-Hind. The Making of the Indo-Islamic World. Volume II. The Slave Kings and the Islamic Conquest 11th-13th Centuries. BRILL. Leiden.§REF§"
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            "description": " Used as war-elephants.§REF§Digby, Simon. War-horse and Elephant in the Dehli Sultanate: A Study of Military Supplies. Oxford: Orient Monographs, 1971.§REF§ <i>Was this reference for the Delhi Sultanate only?</i> The Samma, like the Soomras did not seem to have had access to Elephants, but did have access to cavalry.§REF§Panhwar, M. H. \"Chronological Dictionary of Sind, (Karachi, 1983) pp. 192-3, 196-197§REF§ \"But there can be little doubt that war-elephants were not used in the same numbers under the Islamic dynasties of India as they were in the early medieval period and before. We have seen that the Arabic sources described the most important ninth- and tenth-century Hindu dynasties as equipped with tens of thousands or more elephants of various kinds. Although it is unlikely that these numbers indicated war-elephants in a state of readiness - they probably included the guessed number of untamed and half-tamed ones -, and although some of the figures are contradictory, they are larger than those of later times. <i>Certainly the Arabs of Sind, the Saffarids, and the later Buyids made almost no use of them at all.\"</i> §REF§(Wink 1997, 102-103) Andre Wink. 1997. Al-Hind. The Making of the Indo-Islamic World. Volume II. The Slave Kings and the Islamic Conquest 11th-13th Centuries. BRILL. Leiden.§REF§"
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            "description": " \"The fauna of the greater Indus region included the Indian elephant (Elephas maximus). Ivory, which probably came mainly from the elephant, was extensively used by the Harappans: At Mohenjo-daro it was more common than bone as a material for making artifacts. Elephant bones have been recovered from a number of sites throughout the Indus region, from Lothal and Surkotada in Gujarat, to Mohenjo-daro and Chanhu-daro in Sindh, and to Harappa and Kalibangan in the east; although elephants could have been hunted for their meat, these bones may suggest that tame elephants were employed as work animals, to haul logs, for example. Further suggestive evidence of tame elephants comes from representations on seals of elephants apparently wearing a cloth over their back, and a clay model of elephant’s head with painted designs on its forehead: Elephants are similarly decorated with paint on festive days in modern South Asia.\"§REF§(McIntosh 2008, 131) Jane McIntosh. 2008. <i>The Ancient Indus Valley</i>. Santa Barbara; Denver; Oxford: ABC-CLIO.§REF§"
        },
        {
            "id": 279,
            "polity": {
                "id": 122,
                "name": "pk_kachi_urban_2",
                "long_name": "Kachi Plain - Urban Period II",
                "start_year": -2100,
                "end_year": -1800
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Elephant",
            "elephant": "absent",
            "comment": null,
            "description": " \"The fauna of the greater Indus region included the Indian elephant (Elephas maximus). Ivory, which probably came mainly from the elephant, was extensively used by the Harappans: At Mohenjo-daro it was more common than bone as a material for making artifacts. Elephant bones have been recov- ered from a number of sites throughout the Indus region, from Lothal and Surkotada in Gujarat, to Mohenjo-daro and Chanhu-daro in Sindh, and to Harappa and Kalibangan in the east; although elephants could have been hunted for their meat, these bones may suggest that tame elephants were employed as work animals, to haul logs, for example. Further suggestive evidence of tame elephants comes from representations on seals of elephants apparently wearing a cloth over their back, and a clay model of elephant’s head with painted designs on its forehead: Elephants are similarly decorated with paint on festive days in modern South Asia.\" §REF§(McIntosh 2008, 131)§REF§"
        },
        {
            "id": 280,
            "polity": {
                "id": 194,
                "name": "ru_sakha_early",
                "long_name": "Sakha - Early",
                "start_year": 1400,
                "end_year": 1632
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Elephant",
            "elephant": "absent",
            "comment": null,
            "description": " Some of the sources mentioned horses, but not any other animals used in warfare. Elephants are extremely unlikely to have been in use"
        },
        {
            "id": 281,
            "polity": {
                "id": 195,
                "name": "ru_sakha_late",
                "long_name": "Sakha - Late",
                "start_year": 1632,
                "end_year": 1900
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Elephant",
            "elephant": "absent",
            "comment": null,
            "description": " Some of the sources mentioned horses, but not any other animals used in warfare. Elephants are extremely unlikely to have been in use"
        },
        {
            "id": 282,
            "polity": {
                "id": 521,
                "name": "eg_kushite",
                "long_name": "Egypt - Kushite Period",
                "start_year": -747,
                "end_year": -656
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Elephant",
            "elephant": "present",
            "comment": null,
            "description": " According to this source, for which we require expert confirmation: \"Kushite military also fought with elephants. They were probably the first to use elephants in warfare in the ancient world. They trained war elephants for export to Egypt.\"§REF§(<a class=\"external free\" href=\"http://www.afropedea.org/kush#TOC-Military\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.afropedea.org/kush#TOC-Military</a>)§REF§"
        },
        {
            "id": 283,
            "polity": {
                "id": 131,
                "name": "sy_umayyad_cal",
                "long_name": "Umayyad Caliphate",
                "start_year": 661,
                "end_year": 750
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "SSP",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Elephant",
            "elephant": "unknown",
            "comment": null,
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 284,
            "polity": {
                "id": 44,
                "name": "th_ayutthaya",
                "long_name": "Ayutthaya",
                "start_year": 1593,
                "end_year": 1767
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Elephant",
            "elephant": "present",
            "comment": null,
            "description": " \"Siamese chronicles refer to divisions of their elephants into different categories for battle, including shield, hinder and ordinary war elephants.\" §REF§(Charney 2004, p. 154)§REF§."
        },
        {
            "id": 285,
            "polity": {
                "id": 45,
                "name": "th_rattanakosin",
                "long_name": "Rattanakosin",
                "start_year": 1782,
                "end_year": 1873
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Elephant",
            "elephant": "present",
            "comment": null,
            "description": " \"War elephants survived in Southeast Asia longer than anywhere else. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries they were employed to some extent in the armies of Burma, Cambodia, Siam, Vietnam, Laos and Malaysia.\" §REF§(Schliesinger 2015, p. 36)§REF§"
        },
        {
            "id": 286,
            "polity": {
                "id": 462,
                "name": "tj_sarasm",
                "long_name": "Sarazm",
                "start_year": -3500,
                "end_year": -2000
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "SSP",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Elephant",
            "elephant": "unknown",
            "comment": null,
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 287,
            "polity": {
                "id": 221,
                "name": "tn_fatimid_cal",
                "long_name": "Fatimid Caliphate",
                "start_year": 909,
                "end_year": 1171
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Elephant",
            "elephant": "unknown",
            "comment": null,
            "description": " Soldiers on Elephants took part in military parades.§REF§(Nicolle 1996, 65-69 and in Raymond 2000, 38)§REF§"
        },
        {
            "id": 288,
            "polity": {
                "id": 160,
                "name": "tr_konya_eba",
                "long_name": "Konya Plain - Early Bronze Age",
                "start_year": -3000,
                "end_year": -2000
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Elephant",
            "elephant": "absent",
            "comment": null,
            "description": " Technology not found in archaeological evidence until much later"
        },
        {
            "id": 289,
            "polity": {
                "id": 163,
                "name": "tr_konya_lba",
                "long_name": "Konya Plain - Late Bronze Age II",
                "start_year": -1500,
                "end_year": -1400
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Elephant",
            "elephant": "absent",
            "comment": null,
            "description": " Technology not found in archaeological evidence until much later"
        },
        {
            "id": 290,
            "polity": {
                "id": 161,
                "name": "tr_central_anatolia_mba",
                "long_name": "Middle Bronze Age in Central Anatolia",
                "start_year": -2000,
                "end_year": -1700
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Elephant",
            "elephant": "absent",
            "comment": null,
            "description": " Technology not found in archaeological evidence until much later"
        },
        {
            "id": 291,
            "polity": {
                "id": 73,
                "name": "tr_byzantine_emp_1",
                "long_name": "Byzantine Empire I",
                "start_year": 632,
                "end_year": 866
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Elephant",
            "elephant": "absent",
            "comment": null,
            "description": " Preiser-Kapeller says absent.§REF§(Johannes Preiser-Kapeller 2015) Institute for Medieval Research, Division of Byzantine Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences§REF§"
        },
        {
            "id": 292,
            "polity": {
                "id": 75,
                "name": "tr_byzantine_emp_2",
                "long_name": "Byzantine Empire II",
                "start_year": 867,
                "end_year": 1072
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Elephant",
            "elephant": "absent",
            "comment": null,
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 293,
            "polity": {
                "id": 76,
                "name": "tr_byzantine_emp_3",
                "long_name": "Byzantine Empire III",
                "start_year": 1073,
                "end_year": 1204
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Elephant",
            "elephant": "absent",
            "comment": null,
            "description": " Preiser-Kapeller says absent.§REF§(Preiser-Kapeller 2015) Institute for Medieval Research, Division of Byzantine Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences)§REF§"
        },
        {
            "id": 294,
            "polity": {
                "id": 158,
                "name": "tr_konya_eca",
                "long_name": "Konya Plain - Early Chalcolithic",
                "start_year": -6000,
                "end_year": -5500
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Elephant",
            "elephant": "absent",
            "comment": null,
            "description": " Technology not found in archaeological evidence until much later"
        },
        {
            "id": 295,
            "polity": {
                "id": 159,
                "name": "tr_konya_lca",
                "long_name": "Konya Plain - Late Chalcolithic",
                "start_year": -5500,
                "end_year": -3000
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Elephant",
            "elephant": "absent",
            "comment": null,
            "description": " Technology not found in archaeological evidence until much later"
        },
        {
            "id": 296,
            "polity": {
                "id": 72,
                "name": "tr_east_roman_emp",
                "long_name": "East Roman Empire",
                "start_year": 395,
                "end_year": 631
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Elephant",
            "elephant": "absent",
            "comment": null,
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 297,
            "polity": {
                "id": 164,
                "name": "tr_hatti_new_k",
                "long_name": "Hatti - New Kingdom",
                "start_year": -1400,
                "end_year": -1180
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Elephant",
            "elephant": "absent",
            "comment": null,
            "description": " Technology not found in archaeological evidence until much later"
        },
        {
            "id": 298,
            "polity": {
                "id": 162,
                "name": "tr_hatti_old_k",
                "long_name": "Hatti - Old Kingdom",
                "start_year": -1650,
                "end_year": -1500
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Elephant",
            "elephant": "absent",
            "comment": null,
            "description": null
        },
        {
            "id": 299,
            "polity": {
                "id": 168,
                "name": "tr_lydia_k",
                "long_name": "Kingdom of Lydia",
                "start_year": -670,
                "end_year": -546
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Elephant",
            "elephant": "absent",
            "comment": null,
            "description": " No evidence for use in warfare yet"
        },
        {
            "id": 300,
            "polity": {
                "id": 156,
                "name": "tr_konya_mnl",
                "long_name": "Konya Plain - Ceramic Neolithic",
                "start_year": -7000,
                "end_year": -6600
            },
            "year_from": null,
            "year_to": null,
            "tag": "TRS",
            "is_disputed": false,
            "is_uncertain": false,
            "name": "Elephant",
            "elephant": "absent",
            "comment": null,
            "description": " Technology not found in archaeological evidence until much later"
        }
    ]
}