What is the difference between a phalanx and a knight?

What is the difference between a phalanx and a knight?

 

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What is the difference between a phalanx and a knight?

Who used the phalanx?

What defeated the phalanx?

What is the phalanx moving towards?

How did the Romans defeat the phalanx?

What is the Phalanx's only weakness?

Did the Greeks fight the Romans?

What is ancient Roman or Greek?

What is the difference between a phalanx and a knight?

 

Knights would have the advantage of speed, raw power, and steel. The phalanx would have an advantage in numbers, but their armor would actually have been heavier, less protective, and much less covering than a knight's armor.

 

Who used the phalanx?

 

In the 7th century BC. the Greek city-states adopted an eight-strong phalanx. The Greek hoplite, the heavily armed infantryman who equipped the phalanx, was armed with a round shield, a leather and heavy metal corset, greaves (shin armor), an 8-foot pike for thrust and a 2-foot double-edged sword.

 

What defeated the phalanx?

 

During the Battle of Cynocephalae in 197 BC. The Romans easily defeated the Greek phalanx because the Greeks had not kept their phalanx flanks and the Greek commanders could not overthrow the bulk of the men composing the phalanxes fast enough to counter the strategies of the Roman army and after…

 

What is the phalanx moving towards?

 

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How did the Romans defeat the phalanx?

 

Defeating phalanxes in play usually involved positioning sufficient force near their front while moving to threaten their flanks before charging into their flanks. Attempting to reorient to face the flanking force simply presented the flank of the force standing close to what was once the front.

 

What is the Phalanx's only weakness?

 

The phalanx's main weakness has always been that its right wing was poorly protected as the hoplites had their shields on their left arm.

 

Did the Greeks fight the Romans?

 

The Greek peninsula fell to the Roman Republic in the Battle of Corinth (146 BC), when Macedonia became a Roman province. 88 BC Athens and other Greek city-states rose against Rome and were put down by General Lucius Cornelius Sulla.

 

What is ancient Roman or Greek?

 

Ancient history includes recorded Greek history from around 776 BC. (First Olympiad). This roughly coincides with the traditional date of Rome's founding of 753 BC. and the beginning of the history of Rome together.