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*BUT: ‘a widely accepted theory says that in consequence of the change **|(c[irca] 700-650[bce]ff from combat by individual warrior champions*** to use of hoplite (infantry) phalanxes****)|**, the burden of fighting passed from relatively few aristocrats# to a wider class of substantial peasant farmers;#* that the latter accordingly demanded a share in political power;#** and that revolutionary rulers, the tyrants of the 7^th century, arose as their leaders.#*** Against this view, it has been argued that peasant farmers #**** were more likely to be conservative than revolutionary, and they would dislike war and disturbance as threatening their land and taking them away from tillage; in Etruria and Rome hoplite tactics were adopted during a period of aristocratic ascendancy.’##

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