military and delian league. greek army, armour hoplites wore helmets and used sheilds. bronze body armour and greaves. armour becomes lighter later when chain mail comes out. weaponary. they used spear or spike. used sword and daggers. tactics. the greek army used the tactic called the phalnax aginst the persian army in 490 b.c. in the phalax form hoplites would creaTE A WALL OF SHEILDS IN FRONT ROW AND BEHIND THEM peopel with sears would put them on there shoulders so they would make a wall fo spears. famous battles. battle at thermoplylae persians won to spartans. spartans lost 300 men and their king. salamis greeks foguht aginst persians at sea 1/3 of xerxes fleet was lost. types of soldoers. hoplite, well armered, well armed, very skilled, easily won, premier soldiers. peltast lighter infantry, protestors, spears and javelins. psiloi, no body armour, bow sling or javelin, almost no sheilds, mostly poor citizens. cavalry, on horses, armed or unarmed, sheilds or no sheild, armoured or un armoured, leathe ror metal, carried a javelin were often scouts. types of people that participated, wealthiest social class were the leaders fo the army. second wealthiest class formed the calvary. third wealthiest formed the hoplite infantary. poorest class became the archers as well as oarsmen. delian league. the persian league was involved. the partans launched the peloponnesian war to force the athenans to give up this league. jojned in 478-477b.c. aginst the persians. an alliance of the accient greek city/states that were dominaited.
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