Tactics of the millitary
Phalanx- used in battle of Maarathon, one downside is that it is used against cavalry, the horses in the Cavalry would quickly ride around the phalanx and get them from the side.
Naval Warfare- used during the Peloponnasian war, faought by raming other ships.
Key players
Pericles- polititian, democrat, general, Athanian, he ruled athens from 461 BC to 429 BC
Socrates- was not well liked, he was a philosepher, he praised Sparta.
Plato- student of socrates, wrote dialogues that contain most os Soctates ideas
Aristotle - Student of plato
Archemedes- well known mathematician, first to calculate Pi
Delian League- coalition of gReek states and Athenians, it freed lonian Greeks from Persia, it protected the Agena sea.
Famouse Battles
Persian War- major battle: Marathon, Thermopylae, and Salamis
600 persians died in Marathon.
Thermopylae- 7000 GReeks and 300 Spartans
-stood up to the Persians for a long time.
Salamis- Greeks abandoned athens, fought with naval forces, destroyed mosed of the persian fleet
Peloponnesian War- broke out in 431 and went until 4024
Battle of pylos- 425 BC Athns naval forces were out attacing, over 2000 spartan troops, they tried attacking the sea side wall.
Weaponry and Armor
Swords, Iron knives compared to bronze knives, Arrowheads, sling bullets- steel and clay, shields- bronze, archery, spears.
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