March of the 10,000
The Ancients
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Xenophon's Account of the Cold
As soon as you hit the mountains into what is sort of Armenia, a kind of region. It's big extensive plains, it's not highlands, so it's lowlands and probably ideal for Persian scouts with bows and slings. And then as you get to the more highlands, maintain terrain, it becomes a different kettle of fish entirely. So they've got to deal with that. But what you also hit when you enter the mountains is a change in weather. As soon as you get the mountains, you now deal with the cold. And what's particularly interesting in Xenophon's account of the cold is what he describes the men suffering with. We hear reference to snow blindness
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