Wikipedia is very informative
Seriously though how is there no reliable consensus for battles this big
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chaldiran
Because there was no reliable census, there can be no reliable consensus.
Even back in the 50s my grandfather was able to lie his age to get the Korean war. Bureaucracy and people charged with counting big numbers sucked donkey dick until very recently in history.
Even today we have trouble knowing precisely how much traffic there is on the road, even with cameras everywhere. Why would someone in 1514 be able to look at a maelstrom of murder and know how many bodies there were?
Pic related. How many people live on this street?
>>1100511
I like the idea of one or both sides employing people to go around and count how many dead bodies or lost equipment there was after a battle. That seems pretty comical to me. It's like they sent in the army, so now it's time to send in the bureaucrats.
Turkish sources would be the best one.
>>1100527
1312
Easy.
>>1100527
Can't one side tell by the fact they won't have to pay 'x' amount of soldiers anymore for being dead and whatnot? Also for counting their enemy bodies to estimate how much remaining soldiers they could have or how well they kicked ass? I'm sure with having an Army of thousands of soldiers, you could always order a small team of servants out of the thousands of servants following them to go out and count the bodies, or make the locals do it. I doubt war back then was always like some video game where people didn't care about the corpses of both sides laying around on a battlefield and forgot about them.
