The rule of thumb, which I believe originated from Edward Gibbon, is that no premodern society was ever able to keep more than 1% of their population under arms.
In the past, there was an ask about army size in which you mentioned something about “common rules of thumb used by historians” (or something similar) to come up with army sizes of Westeros. I’m curious if you don’t mind, what are some of these rules of thumb?
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