History 2173 Lecture Notes - Sophocles
31 Jan 2013
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Agriculture and warfare are the two main occupations and warfare is dependant on food production and farming. Can"t understand how they fought if you don"t know how they live. Wanted protection so they built fortifications and barriers such as iron age hill forts (in britain and europe), Hadrian"s wall that was built by the romans under hadrian as a barrier across the north of england looking over the barbarian population, and mediaeval castles. Had to think about armour and training for the troops as well as the logistics necessary and your man power. Romans had legionaries with a high degree of training and in greece there is the notion that every male had the responsibility of defending the state but no state in these times went into passivism. The mayans from mesoamerica are sometimes presented as peaceful but the archaeological evidence shows otherwise because they were very keen on warfare and conquest.
