Most soldiers died from disease. poor sanitation, battle wounds :)
I may be wrong but i read that if the annual nile floods were to low it could cause drought and they would starve.
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The underlying cause of the war was the colonists unrelenting desire for more and more land, but the immediate cause for its outbreak was the trial and execution of three of Metacom's men by the colonists. ... According to legend, Metacom sat in a cave on Avon Mountain and watched the burning of the town.
Julius wanted to be the ruler of greece until he died but the council didn't want him for a ruler forever so they assassinated him in clear day and Pompeii was a Greece city that lived next to an active volcano,
