western civ day twenty-four

NOTES

• Greeks were certainly war-like- spartans especially
• Spartan were known for their tough, ruthless infantry
• Infantry: Soliders who fought on land
• Spartan boys began training when they were seven years old 
• Athens had a great infantry, but their navy was the best out of everyone's 
• Trireme- most technologically advanced, fastest ship in the world, rowed by 170 men on 3 different levels, battering ram- agile and fast 
• Athens used a formation called phalanx- group of 100-150 warriors in lines of 10 with long spears and moved toward the enemy in unison
• Persians had a huge army and nearly unlimited resources
• Greek army- iron weapons, foot soliders (hoplites), spears, swords, shields, phalanx, home-field, and very determined because they wanted to preserve democracy
• Persian army- archery, then calvary, then lightly armed infantry, huge #, not home, and hired a professional army 
• 490 BC- Persian fleet attacks marathon, loses, Pheidippides runs to war them- he runs 26 miles
• 480 BC- Greeks abandon Athens to fight Persia 
• Greeks win