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Military and Delian League
- Armour was helmets and shields, bronze body armour, and greaves
- Armour becomes lighter with fortified linen and chainmail
- Weapons were spears or spikes, swords and daggers
- Tactics were Phalanx against Persian army in 490 B.C.
- Phalanx- would create a wall of shields in the front row and then long spears held by second row and behind would come down over the shoulders of the first row
- Famous battles- Battle of Thermopylae-Persians won over spartans
- Battle of Salamis- Greek faught against the Persians at sea-1/3 of Xerxes fleet was lost
- Types of soldiers
- Hoplites- well armored, well armed, skilled, easily won, and premier soldiers
- Petlast-Lighter infantry, protectors, used spears or javelins
- Psiloi- no body armor, used bow, slingshot, or javelin, almost no shields, and mostly poor citizens
- Cavalry- on horses, armed/unarmed, shields/no shields, armored/unarmored, if armed they wore leather or metal and carried javelin, were oftn scouts
- Types of people that participated
- Wealthy became leaders of the army
- Second wealthy formed the calvary
- Third wealthy formed the hoplite infantry
- Poorest became the archers and oarsmen
- Delian League
- The Persian league was involved- the spartans launched the pelopnnesian war to force the Athenians to give up this league
- Joined in 478-477 B.C. against Persians
- alliance of greek city-states that were dominated by the Athens
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