Warfare


 * __ Austin's Project __**

__**The Greek warfare History**__
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Warfare: __** war was very common in ancient Greece. The Greeks lived in little city states, with no more than about 100,000 people in each city-state. They fought with Athens, Sparta, Corinth, and Thebes. They were always fighting over their borders. The Greeks sometimes fought in other countries and took them over and took all of their stuff. There were many wars in ancient Greece, but some we don't know very much about. However, four main wars we do know about, all because of the writing, Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides, and Arrian, these are the __Trojan war, in ( around 1250 BC),__ __the Persian war in about, (490 and 480 BC)__, and the __Peloponnesian war in around, ( 441 and 404 BC)__, and even the __campaigns of Alexander the Great in 331 and 323 BC__. Then after all of that the Greeks were taken of by the Romans in (146 BC). We know of that because of Polyius.

__**Armor, Weapons, and Tactics**__ __**Tactics**__ Unlike other countries like, Egypt, or the Lydians, the Greeks came up with a new way of fighting without charging in big groups, instead they were trained to charge in lines, shoulder to shoulder. This way each man was protected by the shield of the man standing next to him, so they were all pretty much safe, or protected by eachother. When they each took a step, no enemy spears could go through their wall of shields.

__**Armor**__ A hoplite carried a metal shield to defend himself against the enemy and also to break the weapons of the enemy. A spear of a hoplite was six to eight feet long with a sharp iron head fixed on a shaft of ash wood and a bronze butt. They wore a helmet to protect their face and head during the battle. They also carried a double-edged sword. They had Good armor, some of it weighed 60 to 65 pounds.

Weapons The Greeks had a metal shield, sword, spears, bow and arrows, and some other little handy weapons.

**THE END OF ANCIENT GREEK WARFARE=)**

__**GEOGRAPHY**__ The Greeks did not have very good soil for growing crops, and there are huge mountains around them which makes it hard to walk places, plus there is never enough fresh water. So because of this people did not settle in ancient Greece as early as they moved to Egypt, and the fertile crescent. On the other hand they did have a lot of coastline (Beaches). No part of Greece is more than about forty miles from the ocean. So when people did come to Greece there were sailors, and there were lots of islands and stuff. So then the Greeks became great sailors and ship buildors, and some became workers for that kind of stuff. They also became great fishermen, and sold and traded fish. Then they became mergants and traded there ships and fish for some other valuables like, food, weapons, and Etc.

THE END OF ANCIENT GREEK GEOGRAPHY

__** Religion There are a lot of different stories about the Greek Gods. **__