HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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The head of a council of leaders who made important decisions
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A famous poem written by Homer to help preserve the memories of Greek culture.
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The formation of heavily armed soldiers who moved together as a unit in battle.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -phalanx, in military science, tactical formation consisting of a block of heavily armed infantry standing shoulder to shoulder in files several ranks deep. Fully developed by the ancient Greeks, it survived in modified form into the gunpowder era and is viewed today as the beginning of European military development.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hoplites (/ˈhɒplaɪts/ HOP-lytes) (Ancient Greek: : op-li-tēs) were citizen-soldiers of Ancient Greek city-states who were primarily armed with spears and shields. Hoplite soldiers used the phalanx formation to be effective in war with fewer soldiers.
Detailed explanation-3: -Perhaps the most prominent example of the phalanx’s evolution was the oblique order, made famous in the Battle of Leuctra. There, the Theban general Epaminondas thinned out the right flank and centre of his phalanx, and deepened his left flank to an unheard-of fifty men deep.
Detailed explanation-4: -From the eighth or seventh century BC, hoplites started fighting in the phalanx, a formation that helped them achieve a string of notable victories over the Persians, such as the triumph at Marathon in 490 BC. Hoplites went into battle carrying a long spear called a dory.
Detailed explanation-5: -The combat formation used by the Greeks and Romans was called the phalanx. This involved the soldiers standing side by side in ranks. Just before contact with the enemy, the soldiers moved in very close together so that each man’s shield helped to protect the man on his left.