HIST 002A Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Moe Williams, Hoplite, Latin
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Were very much like greeks and colonized the ancient world. Develop a revolutionary system of writing, called the alphabet. Most of the systems were pictographs beforehand , symbols represented words in the language. Phoneicaina alphabet only had 22 symbols/ made it easier to learn than other systems. Each only had sound in the language. Greeks adopted this system for their language/ greek alphabet. Greeks handed off that alphabet to the romans. English was made after that latin language. For warfare greeks would wear bronze armor and bronze weapons. The government did not pay for the armor and supply for their soldiers. Instead they had to buy their own stuff if they joined the army. Bronze was expensive so few people were able to afford to buy their own stuff. If you could not afford it you were ineligible for military service. Thus only the very wealthy were able to serve in the army. Greeks armies and battles were relatively small.
