The story of the map of Europe, its making and its changing . ttled among a j^^^gpeople whom they had conquered, they often slavesfound themselves fewer in numbers, and kept masterstheir leadership only by their greater strengthand fighting ability. Here there had arisen a new situation: all men were no longer equal, led by a chief of their ^^ longer are ailown choosing, but instead, the greater part of men equal them now had no voice in the government. They had become subjects, working to earn their own living and also, as has been said, to support in idleness their conquerors. This ability o
The story of the map of Europe, its making and its changing . ttled among a j^^^gpeople whom they had conquered, they often slavesfound themselves fewer in numbers, and kept masterstheir leadership only by their greater strengthand fighting ability. Here there had arisen a new situation: all men were no longer equal, led by a chief of their ^^ longer are ailown choosing, but instead, the greater part of men equal them now had no voice in the government. They had become subjects, working to earn their own living and also, as has been said, to support in idleness their conquerors. This ability of the few to rule the many and The valueof armor 44 The Story of force them to support their masters was in-creased as certain peoples learned better thanothers how to make strong armor and effectiveweapons. Nearly five hundred years beforethe time of Christ, at the battle of Marathon(Mara thon), the Greeks discovered that oneGreek, clad in metal armor and armed with along spear, was worth ten Persians wearingleather and carrying a bow and arrows or a short. ALEXANDER DEFEATING THE PERSIANS «sword. One hundred and sixty years later,a small army of well-equipped MacedonianGreeks, led by that wonderful general, Alex-ander the Great, defeated nearly forty timesits number of Persians in a great battle in Asiaand conquered a vast empire. In later times, as better and better armorwas made, the question of wealth entered chief who had money enough to buy the The Map of Europe 45 best arms for his men could defeat his poorerneighbor and force him to pay money as to aruler. Finally, in the so-called Middle Ages,before the invention of gunpowder, one knight,armed from crown to sole in steel, was worthin battle as much as one hundred poorly-armedfarmers or peasants as they are called inEurope. In the Dark Ages,* after all these bar-barians that we have named had swarmed over ^, The robber Europe, and before the governments of modern chiefstimes were fully grown, there were hundred
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