Question
These typically non-professional soldiers were required to furnish their own panoply (“PAN-uh-plee”) of armor, whose heavy helmet and greaves became rarer by the 4th century BCE. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name these heavy infantry whose slow, cooperative phalanx tactics developed in Archaic Greece.
ANSWER: hoplites [or hoplîtai]
[10m] Hoplites lost their primacy in Greek warfare after Philip II introduced phalangī́tēs (“fah-lang-GHEE-tays”) armed with these long spears. Thracian (“THRAY-shun”) peltasts may have inspired these pikes, which Macedonian phalanxes used to create protective walls.
ANSWER: sarissas [or sárissas; accept sarissophoros or sarissophoroi] (Other factors, such as heavy cavalry, also likely contributed to the shift.)
[10h] To complement the mobility afforded by cuirasses of this material, hypaspists (“hy-PASS-pists”) discarded sárissas for the shorter hoplite dóry. This light, flexible material was glued and laminated to reconstruct the breastplate in the Alexander Mosaic.
ANSWER: linen [accept linothorax, linothorakes, thorakes lineoi or loricae linteae; prompt on clothing or textiles or fibers] (The book Reconstructing Ancient Linen Body Armor examines the technology’s replication.)
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 13 | 16.15 | 85% | 69% | 8% |
Data
| Johns Hopkins | Berkeley A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago A | Waterloo | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Columbia A | Purdue | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| WUSTL A | Cornell A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Northwestern | Iowa State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Maryland | Illinois | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU | Toronto A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Penn | Florida | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Rutgers | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Stanford | North Carolina A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Texas | Minnesota A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Kentucky | Vanderbilt | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale A | Michigan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |