HIST 002A Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Moe Williams, Hoplite, Hellenic Navy
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Darius gathered army of 20,000 soldiers a tiny fraction of persians faction. Greeks had never seen an army so big. Persiand sent a message to athenians because resisting is futile and just become subjects of persia. Decision was made by an assembly of athenian citizens/ athenians chose to fight. They tell persians, but they love freedom to much they decided to fight. Fighting to defend political power, family, freedom, and home. But people were scared cuz persia was scary. Basically alone, athenians marched out to a marathon. 10,000 athenian hoplites to faced 20,000 persian soldiers. At the battle of marathon the athenian hoplites defeated the athenian army. 7,000 persians were killed, the rest fled back to persia. 1. ) most persian soldiers are not persiasn, they are forced to fight. Greeks are fighting to defend their home. Soldiers of persian army did not wear armor. So he takes his time and prepares for a proper invasion of greece.
