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Early Iron Age Greek Warrior 1100–700 BC
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The period from 1200 BC onwards saw vast changes in every aspect of life on both the Greek mainland and islands as monarchies disappeared and were replaced by aristocratic rule and a new form of community developed: the city-state. Alongside these changes a new style of warfare developed which was to be the determining factor in land warfare in Greece until the defeat of the Greek city-state by the might of Macedonia at Chaeronea in 338 BC. This mode of warfare was ... >Voir plus
Thucydides (1.5–6) characterises this period as one of smaller, poorer, generally weaker cities, with reduced communication or trade, threatened by piracy and plunder, and which felt the need to arm themselves with iron weapons.