This will be my last post guys. I really hoped that you enjoyed my entire blog. My whole blog was focusing on the soldiers and what they used to win battles. I have tried my best to describe the ways that the greeks won most of their battles. I have talked about the ships that they road in on the water and how they are very durable and swift. I have talked about their armor and weapons and shields. My research is important to me because I got to learn about a awesome culture and there great army. This research will also help other people learn about the greek culture and the weapons that they used, it also shows them the fighting technics that they used because alexander the great helped create the phalanx which I talked about in a earlier post. George Washington used many of Alexander the greats technics, so you can say without the greeks the United States might not be free like they are today.
The greek warships beat other warships because they were much smaller and easier to move around. Under the deck of the ship are slaves lock with chains around their ankles so that they wont try to escape the greeks. The problem for the slaves was that if the ship were to crash they would be trapped and would not be able to escape and would drown unless they were in waist deep water which they probably would not bed in. The ships were called triremes, they were usually built with softwood which was light and let them move around quicker. The disadvantage to softwood is that it absorbs water and can be filled up by it easily, so the greeks would bring them in at night time and let the water get out of them. The triremes had battering rams on the front of the boat so that they could ram through opposing ships. The greek also sometimes used their warships to trade with other places. The amount of people on a average ship was about 200. To see where i got this information click here to view a website on the ancient greek encyclopedia.
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