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Greek heavy infantry formation suited to hilly Greek geography and decisive in infantry combat.
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hoplites
Greek heavy infantry formation suited to hilly Greek geography and decisive in infantry combat.
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model
Greek hoplites and Persian horse archers develop from different geographies; Persia cannot use its horse-archer advantage effectively in Greece.
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Jiang presents Marathon as a case where Greek geography and hoplite infantry neutralized Persian cavalry advantage.
definition
He defines hoplites as shield-and-spear infantry and phalanx as a moving wall formed by armored men standing together.
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"...war with each other. And the major innovation is called the hoplites. Okay? The hoplites is basically to create a wall together so you..."
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"And as a result the Greeks are able to use hoplites and bulldoze over the Persians. So this is the Battle of Marathon which..."
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"Okay? And in 490 BCE, the Persians decided to attack Greece to teach the Athenians a lesson. And this was called the Battle of..."
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"...over hundreds of years, was develop a new military tactic called hoplites. Hoplites. So hoplite comes from the word hoplin. Hoplin is Greek for..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Hellenistic World lecture: empire stabilizes itself into stagnation, borderlands beat it with energy and openness, Greece wins as a borderland, then becomes the empire whose universities, cities, and translations...
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Greek history begins with geography, but it ends here as a theory of abundance, blocked status, and pointless war: when the line stops moving, the young do not overthrow the old order directly.
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