Warfare

**Warfare**

** In ancient Greece wars were very common. They lived in things called City-states. City-states are like little towns in the united states now. There were no more than about 100,000 people in every city state. These City-states never stopped fighting over there borders, Athens, Sparta, Corinth, and Thebes. They would Also fight invaders. At times they fought together and sometimes they didn't. ** ** we don't know much about all of the wars, but we do know about the 4 main ones. These would be the Trojan war, Persian wars, Peloponnesian war, and last Alexander the Great. ** **Women were not aloud to be soldiers. Greek generals from many different came up with a way that they could have an advantage over other countries like Egypt. They taught them to fight them side by side so that the guy who was standing next to you had a shield that could protect you.** **spears and arrows couldn't get through the wall of the shields. **

**__ people who fought like that were called hoplite The armor that they wore weighed 60 to 65 pounds. They used spears that were 6 to 8 feet long. The spears can also be double sided. They wore helmets to protect there faces during battle. __ The catapult was very important too. It was used for throwing large objects or rocks at the other army that is attacking. A ballista is a weapon that can throw arrows at a long range.**

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