CONFLICTING FORCES.

The article focuses on variety of conflicts and how the archaeological record preserves some of the ways that people across time have waged and resolved them. It mentions brief battle sparked the Seven Years' War, a sprawling conflict that engulfed much of the world and 18th-century conflict was fought between the forces of the Swedish king Charles XII and the Russian czar Peter I. It also mentions traumatic experience that resulted in the Mauryan emperor Ashoka converting to Buddhism.