2000 years of pikes? I assume you mean 200 years. Alexander the Great died in 323 BC, Marian reforms were 107 BC. Pikes weren't really a thing before Phillip II of Macedon.
Unless you're intending to argue that the First Intermediate Period Egyptians were using them, which would be a surprise to me.
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2000 years of pikes? I assume you mean 200 years. Alexander the Great died in 323 BC, Marian reforms were 107 BC. Pikes weren't really a thing before Phillip II of Macedon.
Unless you're intending to argue that the First Intermediate Period Egyptians were using them, which would be a surprise to me.