Military Differences Of Ancient Civilizations

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Topic:
“Military differences of ancient civilizations.” This research essay would be a comparison on the differences in military tactics, weapons, and famous units of the ancient Greeks and Persians.

Scholarly Books:
Connolly, Peter. The Greek Armies. London: Macdonald Educational, 1979.
Peter Connolly writes about the different Greek armies in areas such as tactics, the wars they fought, and their weapons. This will be extremely useful to my essay as I’m sure there is a lot of information that can be quoted from this and put into my essay to create a strong essay.

Greene, Robert. The 33 Strategies of War. New York: Viking, 2006.
Greene writes about 33 strategies of war, including strategies from ancient Greece and Persia. Greene uses multiple different references including “The Greco-Persian wars” by Peter Green. This will help my comparison as it will
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"The Military Situation in Western Asia on the Eve of Cunaxa." The American Journal of Philology 101, no. 1 (1980): 79. doi:10.2307/294177.
Rahe writes about the different military situations of all the civilizations in Western Asian and the Mediterranean including the Persians and the ancient Greeks. This will be important for my topic as I will be able to compare differences between the Greeks and Persians among other civilizations.

Wardman, A. E. "Tactics and the Tradition of the Persian Wars." Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte H. 1 (1959): 49-60.
Wardman writes about the Persian wars and the differences in the tactics and traditions that they were a part of the battles that helped create one of the largest civilizations in the western world at the time. This will be useful to my topic as I will be able to extract information about Persian tactics.

Primary source documents:
"Ancient History Sourcebook: Aristotle: On the Lacedaemonian Constitution, C. 340 BCE." Internet History Sourcebooks. Accessed October 29, 2016.

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