Military and Delian League
Greek army –
armor; hoplites wore helmets and used shields, Bronze body armor, Greaves-shin guards. Armor becomes lighter with fortified linen and chainmail. Weaponry – the hoplites used spear or spike, secondary weapon was swords and daggers
Tactics; used a tactic called the phalanx against the Persian army in 490 BC. Hoplites would create a wall of shield in the front row and then long spears held by the second row and behind would come down over the shoulders of the first row.
battles; battle at thermopylae- persians won to spartans. spartans lost 300 men and their king. salamis - greeks fought against the persians at sea, 1/3 of xerxes fleet was lost.
types of soilders; hoplites - well armored, best weapons, skilled in fighting, easily won battles, premiere soilders. peltast - lighter infantry, lighter armor, protected the flanks of the hoplites, used spears and javalines. Psiloi - no body armor, low grade weapons, javelin, almost no sheild, mostly poor citizens. calvary - on horses. armed/unarmed. sometime had sheilds. sometimes had armored. were often scouts.
types of people that participated; welathiest social class were leaders of the army. second wealthiest class made up the calvary. third wealthiest class formed the hoplite infantry. poorest social class became the archers as well as oarsmen.
delian league; the persian league was invovled and the spartans launched the pelopnesian war ro force the athenians to give up this league. joined in 478-477 BC against the persians. it was an alliance of greek city state that were dominated by the athens.
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