ancient greece

The Greeks had a very strong and tough army. They can stand there ground against the Persians’. There weaponry was built by the black smiths. When they are in war they would use a formation that looked like this.

The Persians’ how ever had different way of attack. There archers would tend to fire volleys to break the enemy formation. Then they would charge in on horses and kill the survivors. Probably the most famous battle would be the battle at marathon (the battle of marathon). Where the Greeks were heavily out-numbered by the Persians. But they held there formation and defeated the Persians. To tell the Greek cities they had one, a single runner ran 41.2 k and that’s why if you ran that distance today it would be called a marathon. After he had told the cities he dropped dead.