5R GREEK WAR AND WEAPONRY by DeeDee Roberts https://padlet.com/droberts6/greekwar en-us 2017-01-09 14:14:36 UTC 2017-01-09 14:35:13 UTC hello@padlet.com Hand to hand, light support troops such as the psiloi were often armed with ranged weapons https://padlet.com/droberts6/greekwar/wish/145982901 2017-01-09 14:16:47 UTC https://padlet.com/droberts6/greekwar/wish/145982901 Popular ranged weapons were the bow (toxa), javelin (akonita) and sling (sfendonai) https://padlet.com/droberts6/greekwar/wish/145984062 2017-01-09 14:19:45 UTC https://padlet.com/droberts6/greekwar/wish/145984062 Shields were made out of bronze https://padlet.com/droberts6/greekwar/wish/145984203 2017-01-09 14:20:06 UTC https://padlet.com/droberts6/greekwar/wish/145984203 The bow https://padlet.com/droberts6/greekwar/wish/145985212 While the bow was a relatively uncommon weapon, some troops treated their arrows by thrusting them into rotten corpses thus creating a crude form of biological weapon]]> 2017-01-09 14:22:53 UTC https://padlet.com/droberts6/greekwar/wish/145985212 the ancient geeks used catapults to defend their base https://padlet.com/droberts6/greekwar/wish/145985242

]]> 2017-01-09 14:22:59 UTC https://padlet.com/droberts6/greekwar/wish/145985242 the wars between Persia and Greece took place in the early part of 5th century BC. https://padlet.com/droberts6/greekwar/wish/145985472 2017-01-09 14:23:37 UTC https://padlet.com/droberts6/greekwar/wish/145985472 Helmits https://padlet.com/droberts6/greekwar/wish/145987050 the earliest helmet was made out of animal teeth ]]> 2017-01-09 14:27:10 UTC https://padlet.com/droberts6/greekwar/wish/145987050 swords were secondary weapons known as xhpos https://padlet.com/droberts6/greekwar/wish/145987210 2017-01-09 14:27:35 UTC https://padlet.com/droberts6/greekwar/wish/145987210 The Greek states often fought each other. Sparta and Athens fought a long war, called pelponnesian war, form 431 to 404 BC. SPARTA WON! https://padlet.com/droberts6/greekwar/wish/145987305 2017-01-09 14:27:47 UTC https://padlet.com/droberts6/greekwar/wish/145987305 Javelins https://padlet.com/droberts6/greekwar/wish/145987786 Peltast troops commonly used javelins. These were light spears around 1.5 meters in length with an unbarbed bronze head to faciliate recovery of the weapon. These were usually thrown with the aid of amentum ]]> 2017-01-09 14:29:00 UTC https://padlet.com/droberts6/greekwar/wish/145987786 a sword was called a kopis (chopper) in Greek language only to be used wile on a horse because it was light. https://padlet.com/droberts6/greekwar/wish/145988340 2017-01-09 14:30:16 UTC https://padlet.com/droberts6/greekwar/wish/145988340 Ten years after this battle the Persians returned to attack Greece, this time though Xerxes some ten years after the first attacks. https://padlet.com/droberts6/greekwar/wish/145988504 2017-01-09 14:30:37 UTC https://padlet.com/droberts6/greekwar/wish/145988504 Chariots https://padlet.com/droberts6/greekwar/wish/145988905 Most chariots could fit 2 people in it. The driver and a spear man or archer.]]> 2017-01-09 14:31:39 UTC https://padlet.com/droberts6/greekwar/wish/145988905