Last slide day

Greek and Persian war:

Greek army:

• iron weapons meant ordinary citizens could afford to arm themselves
• foot soldiers (hoplites) trained from an early age
• armed with spears, swords, and bows
• often fought in phalanx formation
• home field advantage
• motivated to preserve democracy
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Persian Army:

• first archers (damage from far distances)
• then cavalry (disrupted communication between generals and soldiers
• lightly armored infantry (spears, swords, and bows)
• huge numbers
• long way from home
• professional army (soldiers for hire, or mercenaries)

Overall todays class went by really well. All we did was go over the rest of the PowerPoint and then we talked about some of the test questions that he was going to put on the test. And then we worked on our blog for the rest of class. Sadly todays a rainy day, but then it’s kind of a good thing because our lacrosse practice was cancelled which is great because I don’t feel like being soaked all day.