Persia and the Assyrians - The Battle Line

The Persians made changes to the traditional assyrian formation. A horse is a large and vulnerable target for archery. Well equipped infantry are less vulnerable, as the persians were to discover. If you're driving a chariot, you're gone. You don't get anywhere near the battle line,. You're blown away at a distance. That's a great sort of military change that they made over the assyrians.