This is Sparta: Fierce warriors of the ancient world - Craig Zimmer

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    In ancient Greece, violent internal conflict between border neighbors and war with foreign invaders was a way of life, and Greeks were considered premier warriors. Sparta, specifically, had an army of the most feared warriors in the ancient world. What were they doing to produce such fierce soldiers? Craig Zimmer shares some of the lessons that might have been taught at Spartan school.
    Lesson by Craig Zimmer, animation by TED-Ed.

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  • @yogawarriorgirl
    @yogawarriorgirl 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6060

    As my history teacher said, when in Ancient Greece, if you were a man, you wanted to be in Athens, but if a woman, you wanted to be in Sparta.

    • @goldenmemes51
      @goldenmemes51 6 ปีที่แล้ว +640

      But if you were a King, warrior, fearless, ambitious, logistic smart
      You wanted to be in Macedon

    • @therankingworld7627
      @therankingworld7627 6 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      Can u explain pls

    • @ΣοφοκλήςΤόλε
      @ΣοφοκλήςΤόλε 6 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      Golden Memes if you wanted to be a king yeah all the others are athens.

    • @larrylizard4070
      @larrylizard4070 6 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Men still are gonna be stronger

    • @ΣοφοκλήςΤόλε
      @ΣοφοκλήςΤόλε 6 ปีที่แล้ว +313

      david chizi because women in sparta had almost the same rights as men research it man.

  • @raveleijntv
    @raveleijntv 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2145

    In case people wanna know what the tombstones said.
    " Leonidas. died in battle"
    "elene. died during child birth."
    I see what you did there....

    • @MrPoutsesMple
      @MrPoutsesMple 8 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      +mlpSpiritCross and the dates υπγ, υο are 483 and 470 respectively (had to look it up, we don't use greek numerals nowdays).

    • @MrPoutsesMple
      @MrPoutsesMple 8 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Marcus Kaiser Nope, no BC, just 483 and 470.

    • @ashutoshtripathi.
      @ashutoshtripathi. 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Avv2390 who's Elene?

    • @SomeOtherPooma
      @SomeOtherPooma 7 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      Probably a reference to Helen of Troy (she was Helen of Sparta before that, and after, in as much as we can say anything based on legend and myth)

    • @zeuskf62
      @zeuskf62 6 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Elene aka Helen was a legend taking place during the mycenian and minoan civilization's times. Basically she got kidnapped by the leader of Troy and taken back only for her husband to find out she was in Egypt and what he took is an interpretation. All of this is based on the greco-troic war and alot of ancient writers have wrote books about this.

  • @nik007delta
    @nik007delta 8 ปีที่แล้ว +11332

    THIS ..........
    IS ............
    A pretty informative video thanks for posting

  • @megakangaroo5665
    @megakangaroo5665 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1201

    School: gets in a fight and get expelled
    Sparta: Gets in a fight and get awarded.

    • @swanandab2484
      @swanandab2484 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      At least you don't die...or worse, Expelled!...
      oh

    • @andylines8040
      @andylines8040 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I had my mid terms on this

    • @arctic_angel7408
      @arctic_angel7408 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      only if you won tho

    • @brazenRenascent
      @brazenRenascent 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@swanandab2484 You need to sort out your priorities lmao

    • @wankawanka3053
      @wankawanka3053 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      More like win a fight and get awarded

  • @decommissionedunitnanotech2265
    @decommissionedunitnanotech2265 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1029

    Europe: We have walls. Where's yours?
    Spartans: ...
    *WE ARE THE WALLS*

  • @ImERnest
    @ImERnest 8 ปีที่แล้ว +456

    I love the random "Sparta!" in the background

    • @lesROKnoobz
      @lesROKnoobz 8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      +ImERnest For real. Feminists need to be sent into spartan training camps for 13+ years.

    • @Ari-zp4dd
      @Ari-zp4dd 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      lesROKnoobz amen to that.

    • @matthewsantos422
      @matthewsantos422 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Spah-taaaaa

    • @treva77
      @treva77 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😂

  • @miraato-aj
    @miraato-aj 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3842

    I will name my future first baby boy 'Sparta' so whenever I'd introduce him I can scream "THIS IS SPARTA"

    • @RebeccaJ720
      @RebeccaJ720 8 ปีที่แล้ว +292

      Sparta is technically a feminine name. Sparta was the name of their first queen.

    • @ahmadene
      @ahmadene 8 ปีที่แล้ว +223

      +Rebecca Johnson who cares? as long as i can say "THIS... IS.... SPARTAA!!"

    • @Ara-gp4yj
      @Ara-gp4yj 8 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      If I was named Sparta I would of changed it the second I could

    • @ahmadene
      @ahmadene 8 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      +Aramis Zuniga you're not my son.

    • @RebeccaJ720
      @RebeccaJ720 8 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Then I'm naming my kid Narnia LOL.

  • @mariaioannadritsa2206
    @mariaioannadritsa2206 5 ปีที่แล้ว +314

    As a greek, i need to say that i love TED-ED & approve this video
    I would also like to add one thing ; The mothers in Sparta were very "hard" with their sons. They expected of them either to win or die in battle. Actually, there is a quote
    "Either you come to me a victor with your shield or dead on your shield "
    ἢ τὰν ἢ ἐπὶ τᾶς
    ^^

    • @eliminator1472
      @eliminator1472 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Was this quote used in the movie 300? I’ve heard this quote before

    • @Fat-Queen1
      @Fat-Queen1 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I would say the same thing to my son.

    • @ronlacker326
      @ronlacker326 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      TED-ED hates Greeks and other white people. How does that make you feel?

  • @atouloupas
    @atouloupas 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1436

    First of all, modern historians call Spartans like this because they were from Sparta. However did you know that they were called Lacedaemons (Λακεδαιμονείς) and not Spartans (Σπαρτιάτες)? Have you ever wondered what this big nice Λ on a Spartan shield is? It's the Λ from the word Λακεδαιμονείς! But Lacedaemons did call their biggest city Sparta.

    • @atouloupas
      @atouloupas 8 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      Indeed, all Greek tribes had myths for their origin, or the names of their cities, etc. Hellen, for example was the mythological progenitor of the Hellenes (Greeks), who had three sons: Dorus (hence the tribe Dorians), Aeolus (hence Aeolians) and Xuthus. Xuthus had two sons, Ion (hence Ionians) and Achaeus (hence Achaeans).
      Υ.Γ. Γεια χαρά! Απ' ό,τι ξέρω, Λακεδαίμονα ή Λακωνία (Λακωνία είναι νεότερη λέξη, μάλλον υποκοριστικό της πρώτης) λεγόταν η περιοχή όπου κατοικούσαν οι Λακεδαιμόνιοι, ενώ Σπάρτα ήταν το όνομα της Σπάρτης στην δωρική διάλεκτο. Οι Αθηναίοι δεν είχαν το προελληνικό μακρό "α", αλλά το "η" (που ήταν μακρό "ε" στα αρχαία).

    • @pellereinicke5189
      @pellereinicke5189 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You cant trust wiki

    • @pellereinicke5189
      @pellereinicke5189 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      every one can write on wiki, even you, (if you have an account).

    • @atouloupas
      @atouloupas 7 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      Pelle Reinicke This is a stereotype. Yes, everyone can write on Wikipedia, but every single entry has citations from books or articles written by professors and experts and it is frequently checked by Wikipedia's moderators to see if there are citations. So, I can trust the article for, e.g. the Earth or Pericles. But if somewhere in the entry it says "citation needed", then I wont trust this piece of information.

    • @therealtilt
      @therealtilt 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      guys both Αποστολος and me are Greeks so we know our history

  • @KumakOwO
    @KumakOwO 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4136

    I feel like this is one of the only time periods/ancient civilizations where being a woman was actually better than being a man

    • @kakyoin9688
      @kakyoin9688 8 ปีที่แล้ว +301

      Weslie RossMal woman in the west have a bit more rights then men, and can do some things a man can't.

    • @Kardia_of_Rhodes
      @Kardia_of_Rhodes 7 ปีที่แล้ว +157

      Celtic women also had it better at the time, and Queen Tomyris of Scythia is said to be the worlds first female leader.

    • @hellasole3098
      @hellasole3098 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      MAXZONE47 shut the fuck up at the time of sparta this people were climbing t trees

    • @JonatasAdoM
      @JonatasAdoM 7 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      cough Egypt cough rome?

    • @helenjiang2238
      @helenjiang2238 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      JonatasAdoM Rome no Egypt also no.

  • @thefuzzyfurnace
    @thefuzzyfurnace 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1547

    Please please please do another lesson on other greek city states

    • @kleitoes
      @kleitoes 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yassss

    • @alfredthepatientxcvi
      @alfredthepatientxcvi 8 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      on athene

    • @musicmachine4975
      @musicmachine4975 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ya

    • @polychronio
      @polychronio 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +thefuzzy furnace yes

    • @idm1991
      @idm1991 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Alfred Acar Athens would be the prime candidates after Spartans. Although, I wonder why they dive more into the lives of the soldiers after they hit 20. Things such as expecting to get married by 30 for the men and 19 by woman, and how young men are always on the front lines in battles. Also,how soldiers can retire around the age of 60.

  • @JimFortune
    @JimFortune 8 ปีที่แล้ว +722

    It makes no sense to say that all Spartans, men and women, were taught to read and write, but forbidden to leave records.

    • @RomanBelisarius
      @RomanBelisarius 8 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Ehh means the country kept the records of writing for a while? P....then decided to just burn it....or ehhh...."No writing about Sparta...." and letters would soon be discarded after read and write? lol

    • @JimFortune
      @JimFortune 8 ปีที่แล้ว +260

      Brian Jonathan First rule of Sparta. Nobody writes about Sparta.

    • @sophiejones7727
      @sophiejones7727 8 ปีที่แล้ว +258

      they wrote plenty actually. We have poems from Alkmenes and Tyrtaeus, and letters from various people. What he meant was that they weren't allowed to talk about their training or the military at all. For security reasons, same as modern-day soldiers aren't allowed to divulge their orders and shit to their families.

    • @ronaldhubbard577
      @ronaldhubbard577 8 ปีที่แล้ว +118

      The warriors were forbidden to leave records is what he said.
      It makes a lot of sense actually, like he states that a Spartan's sole purpose was the betterment of Sparta, any soldier that wrote about the horrors of war would make upcoming soldiers fearful, weakening Sparta.

    • @JimFortune
      @JimFortune 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ronald Hubbard What's the purpose of learning to read and write if you're forbidden to write?

  • @PhantomZephyrV
    @PhantomZephyrV 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2143

    I would like to see a video about Alexander the Great

    • @sjoker27
      @sjoker27 8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Would be interesting no doubt to me at the very least

    • @markoneill2447
      @markoneill2447 8 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      +Metazeos that would be GREAT?

    • @lorddinosaur9885
      @lorddinosaur9885 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That would be really interesting.

    • @veidt6037
      @veidt6037 8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      +Phantom Zephyr Ⓥ They could do a history on trial video about him.

    • @rasmuserlandsson2204
      @rasmuserlandsson2204 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +Phantom Zephyr Ⓥ UPVOTE THIS! Would really like Alexander the Great video.

  • @tainoman7905
    @tainoman7905 5 ปีที่แล้ว +244

    Basically Sparta was the equivalent of trying to make real life super soldiers

    • @sovereignshark
      @sovereignshark 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      And they big time succeeded

    • @neonsashimidream1075
      @neonsashimidream1075 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Equivalent is an odd choice of words here I think. I suppose something is technically equal to itself, but it seems unnecessary to point that out.

    • @Fat-Queen1
      @Fat-Queen1 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Precisely why Spartan regime needs to be brought back for men

  • @milospopovic819
    @milospopovic819 6 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    Both died so that Sparta could live , what an inspirational quote.

  • @derekl126
    @derekl126 5 ปีที่แล้ว +333

    "Mommy, look at this hunky guy with a spear! I'm gonna be like him when I grow up!"
    Well damn 2 years later I return
    Thanks to everyone who saw this worthless comment

  • @jillianyoung7006
    @jillianyoung7006 6 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    I love the background music randomly screaming "SPARTAAAAA!"

  • @dafuqmr13
    @dafuqmr13 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1126

    i can only imagine that sparta's woman probably looks like a fit gym woman, damn

    • @wikarespati5389
      @wikarespati5389 8 ปีที่แล้ว +154

      yup, only hot chicks. Damn how lucky to be a spartan

    • @MetallicReg
      @MetallicReg 8 ปีที่แล้ว +223

      Lucky to be an "alive" spartan - this was enough luck for one life.

    • @davidliu7729
      @davidliu7729 7 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Mr Tambourine Man They must be shredded as fuck

    • @ashutoshtripathi.
      @ashutoshtripathi. 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Alfredo der Analtorpedo more shredded than I am for sure

    • @kevinnelson6070
      @kevinnelson6070 7 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      when a man and women had intercourse for the first time on their marriage day, the women would shave all her hair off and wear it is as a beard.

  • @High_Rate136
    @High_Rate136 4 ปีที่แล้ว +276

    "In Sparta it was believed that only strong and capable women could bare children that would become strong and capable warriors."
    I mean, from a hereditary genetics standpoint, they were not wrong.

    • @nicholasvincent6014
      @nicholasvincent6014 ปีที่แล้ว

      it is wrong. just because u are strong doesn't mean your offspring will be strong. Dwayne Johnson, the rock, his kid isn't going to come out of the womb ripped. He will have to go to the gym and lift weights just like everyone else to become strong.

    • @High_Rate136
      @High_Rate136 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@nicholasvincent6014 It is not wrong. That's why his daughter is incredibly masculine

    • @heathersickels
      @heathersickels ปีที่แล้ว +2

      More about conformity than generics

    • @yashwardhansingh4787
      @yashwardhansingh4787 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "Hereditary genetic" more like eugenics

  • @jeretoon8350
    @jeretoon8350 6 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    I love the random “SPARTA!!” Every once in awhile

  • @cjn0001
    @cjn0001 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2595

    cartoons make the inhumanity fun!

    • @crono3015
      @crono3015 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      :D Yeah

    • @henriqueyoh
      @henriqueyoh 8 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      "inhumanity"

    • @crono3015
      @crono3015 8 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      "Pointless quotes"

    • @photographymatt
      @photographymatt 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      +Craig Noneman inhumane?which bit?

    • @DanDan-ho6xz
      @DanDan-ho6xz 8 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      +photographymatt Are you in your comfort zone ? Are you the spectator in the arena criticizing and making comment about how easy it is to train and to fight or are you the gladiator ? Respect them before trashing, talk the walk and WALK the talk or do first and talk after. Freewill was removed from birth and only devotion to Sparta is their right to live, unless you're a North Korean, you might have a glimpse of what they have to endure all their life.

  • @flyankee7
    @flyankee7 7 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    Greatest response in ancient history:
    After invading southern Greece and receiving the submission of other key city-states, Philip II of Macedon sent a message to Sparta: "If I invade Laconia you will be destroyed, never to rise again." The Spartan ephors replied with a single word: "If" (αἴκα).
    Then of course you also have molon labe...

  • @achappy2199
    @achappy2199 8 ปีที่แล้ว +108

    I'm learning about Sparta and Athens in school. It's very interesting. :)

    • @StoicManYT
      @StoicManYT 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Where are you from? :)

    • @andylines8040
      @andylines8040 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I had my mid terms on this video

  • @Toxin081
    @Toxin081 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I watched this in my history class, and it’s interesting that Spartan men had to go through that.

  • @Omar-uk1dq
    @Omar-uk1dq 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Historians:Spartan children were sent to military schools where they would forced to fight,be starved for days,were barely given any clothes in the cold and were flogged in front of an altar where they would die 90% of the time
    Ted-Ed:yea but at least they were literate

  • @avonord
    @avonord 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I was in Sparta few years ago. There was no museum. I could only find a statue of a Spartan warrior in the main square. And aptly, there was a military base near by.

    • @camilogonzalez8140
      @camilogonzalez8140 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sparta is actually very small nowadays. That statue would have been a replica of the statue known as 'Leonidas' discovered in the 20th century. However, it is not known whether the statue truly depicts the legendary king.

  • @reginald56000
    @reginald56000 8 ปีที่แล้ว +657

    omg i would die instantly if im born on that time and country O_O

    • @Ara-gp4yj
      @Ara-gp4yj 8 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Welp

    • @myohmy9000
      @myohmy9000 8 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Me to, I was allergic to everything when I was a baby, I just quickly grew out of it. I whould have been left on a mountain to die if I live in ancient Sparta

    • @Fishbiene
      @Fishbiene 8 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      +reginald56000 No you wouldn't. If you were born in that time, that life would seem normal to you. No one ever gets that.

    • @reginald56000
      @reginald56000 8 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Chris Ramsey Same here. i was Born with lung Problems and eventually got Asthma..but with years of medication im much healthier now..so Yeah.we could be at the mountains being eaten alive if ever we are born in those years XD

    • @reginald56000
      @reginald56000 8 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Fishbiene You dont get it..yeah it would be normal...if we are all born healthy..Babies then was examined if they are healthy or not...If not They are left in the mountains to Die. Im one of those unfortunate babies that are unhealthy...so thats it ill surely die .

  • @tcironbear21
    @tcironbear21 8 ปีที่แล้ว +393

    You forgot all the slaves that made Sparta possible.

    • @scottishcatdad993
      @scottishcatdad993 8 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Spartan boys use to murder at least one slave in order to stop a rebellion

    • @xPrinceOfHellxxx
      @xPrinceOfHellxxx 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Richard Allan this is stupid and untrue

    • @scottishcatdad993
      @scottishcatdad993 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Nikias Zotos φίλε μου ψάξε το.... Το έκαναν για να μην κάνουν ποτε εξέγερση οι είλωτες. Βικιπαίδεια άμα μπεις το λεει

    • @scottishcatdad993
      @scottishcatdad993 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      +Murilo Bragança RESPECT for being so good at history

    • @scrungedigger8625
      @scrungedigger8625 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Shhhhhh you leave the helots alone

  • @pablogarable
    @pablogarable 6 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Incredible video and channel. Thanks so much for your history information and the subtitles too, it's very helpful for Spanish people to understand English. Sparta were a great soldiers.

  • @enderstar5017
    @enderstar5017 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I only clicked on this because our class is Sparta for Greek and Roman day. When we got the announcement of the city-state we were assigned, everyone cheered at the top of our lungs even though it was the middle of period 4. The teacher next door sent a student to find out what was going on.

  • @JohnDoe-ig8om
    @JohnDoe-ig8om 8 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    In case anyone's interested, the two tombstones at 4:04 onwards read, respectively:
    Leōnidas
    Pethane stē machē
    upg"
    Elenē
    Pethane stē genna
    Uo
    which translates (I think) as:
    Leonidas
    Died at battle
    483 [BC]
    Elene
    Died at birth
    470 [BC]

  • @PattyOflan88
    @PattyOflan88 8 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    i love many parts about my personal heritage, but the knowledge that part of my family has always resided in Sparta is surly one of my favorites. My grandmther used to tell me stories that she heard from her grandmother, that she heard from her grandmother and so on. Their society though harsh and alien in this day and age, i think its so cool to have MAYBE been related to some of these warriors. a little fun fact for good Ol' Ted-Ed. Spartan women (for the most part, not all) would wear a tightened leather band over their left breast, or in some severe cases have it cut off. all so that if the safety of the state was in jeopardy they would be able to hold a Hoplon and make and maintain a phalanx if the need became so dire. One final side note....the reason why Sparta had no walls....was because in their minds....every citizen of Sparta was "a brick in the wall of Sparta".

  • @joaovitormendes6302
    @joaovitormendes6302 8 ปีที่แล้ว +197

    keep on ancient civilizations vídeos!!! this was awesome!

  • @marcellabutay1090
    @marcellabutay1090 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    The whole purpose of Sparta was to have a strong military to defend the nation that had its only purpose as defending itself. As in, they defended theirselves so they could live on but with no other reason but to defend theirselves more.

  • @anactualrat
    @anactualrat 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I would like to point out that most of the comments are: “This is Sparta!”

  • @donniepinns1472
    @donniepinns1472 8 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Geez... I love ancient Greece - its history and culture - very much. I'd love to see more videos on ancient Greece like this.

    • @ValonsUFOZone
      @ValonsUFOZone 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +Donnie Pinns Sparta is Not Greece and never was. Sparta = Albania. Sparta/Shpata/Spata is an Albanian word only Albanians understand you can use google translate. greeks don't understand the word Sparta.that time the city Sparta was an city of Albania. also the city "Athena" A THENA or the name of the country "Greece" GRA ECI. those are also Albanian words only Albanians understand. The Albanians have been in Balkan long long before than the "Greeks" even existed. you can google all this.

    • @cyber_HAF
      @cyber_HAF 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Valon B But albania is a 400 years old country...What are you talking about ?
      No albania is not ancient....

    • @ValonsUFOZone
      @ValonsUFOZone 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Dimitris Gavriliadis 400 years? what are you talking about. Albania is the oldest and Most Ancient country in Balkan without doubt. go read and learn history first. you can say whatever you like but fact is that the Albanians are the oldest people in balkan, way way older before the so called "Greeks" even existed. The Albanians gave the Greeks all those Names. ATHENA, SPARTA and so on..... you can use google translate for all this. all this are Albanian names greeks don't understand those names and the meaning of those words. pls. learn first history and if possible the Albanian language wich is a very unique and very old language,so if you want to understand those words and the meaning of it you need the Albanian language. i hope this helped you... Thanks.

    • @cyber_HAF
      @cyber_HAF 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Actually there is meaning in Ancient Greek,you should check.Your facts are not correct...
      Well i gess you hate Greece right ?
      Im pretty sure your language has a lot of Greek words...
      Dont tell me that thεy learn such things in schools...
      I almost forget it there is also a Greek alhpabet.

    • @willtherealgeorgemichaelpl5879
      @willtherealgeorgemichaelpl5879 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Another Albanian idiot propagandist! Albania became a state in 1871 stupid! Modern Albania were greek colonies. It's the exact opposite of your propaganda!

  • @Big_ole_peanut
    @Big_ole_peanut 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    In some weird way i can’t explain these cartoon drawings are really making these whole horrific times in life seem wholesome. 🙂

    • @roymadron9691
      @roymadron9691 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      MmI on no

    • @Fat-Queen1
      @Fat-Queen1 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Why horrific?

  • @shoeshiRoll
    @shoeshiRoll 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1255

    Meanwhile, people in America want a societal change...because words hurt lol

    • @ducktales1113
      @ducktales1113 8 ปีที่แล้ว +141

      My coffee is cold, lets sue the government and protest and make things worse!

    • @jeremiahduran7238
      @jeremiahduran7238 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Smokey Le Bear it's more half and half.

    • @shoeshiRoll
      @shoeshiRoll 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Smokey Le Bear Not cool man

    • @Anndrei02
      @Anndrei02 8 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      +MisfitFourOne A man that is fighting is not thinking serious and deep problems.This world is too evolved to need so prepared soldiers,that unwillingly sacrifice their life for a not enough good purpose.Words do hurt if you have the mental capability to understand them.If you want to fight go in Middle East and show your muscles.

    • @CampusSalus
      @CampusSalus 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +MisfitFourOne You spelled "the entire industrial world" wrong.

  • @IanJagersma
    @IanJagersma 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My grade seven students are now experts on the Spartan people - thanks!

  • @Sheepo25
    @Sheepo25 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Another thing that many people forget about Sparta is that they had many, many slaves.
    The men and women described in this video were actually those of the upper class. The lower classes weren't raised this way and it was socially acceptable for rich Spartans to beat the poor and the slaves at any time that they felt like.

  • @ChaoSpiritZ
    @ChaoSpiritZ 8 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    am i the only one who heard "THIS IS SPARTA!" in a low screaming volume?

    • @333angeleyes
      @333angeleyes 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +ChaoSpiritZ rotmg the best part of this video

    • @espalorp3286
      @espalorp3286 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +ChaoSpiritZ rotmg no, out of 32 thousand people, you were the only one. Good job.

    • @melanieshipley3133
      @melanieshipley3133 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      i did

  • @FatlegFleetfoot
    @FatlegFleetfoot 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    No mention of the helots and periokoi? The Spartan citizen class was an elite minority that ruled over a vast territory and populace (by Ancient Greek standards); it was only able to dedicate itself to warfare because it was fed and maintained by serf labour. One could say that the warrior class devoted more energy into keeping the serf class in check, than into warring with other states. Otherwise, great series.

    • @JHimminy
      @JHimminy ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They earned it through their personal austerity and higher degree of severity towards themselves.

  • @RKNGL
    @RKNGL 8 ปีที่แล้ว +127

    I in some messed up way wish they would have survived. Just to see if their brutal methods would have physically evolved them in any way.

    • @mohammadhijazi4498
      @mohammadhijazi4498 8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      hell i wish I was raised in a similar environment (less brutal but similar)

    • @MrCeruleanWolf
      @MrCeruleanWolf 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Never thought of that, it would be great to see

    • @DimPapayian
      @DimPapayian 8 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      But they did survive. Sparta reigned supreme for 700 yrs. They fell when the way of living, set by Lygurgus, was forgotten.

    • @SomeOtherPooma
      @SomeOtherPooma 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      And also when the supply of Spartans started to get short. There was no way to become a first class citizen, but lots of ways to stop being a full citizen - including getting stabbed to death in a war, but also not being able to pay your mess bill. So it's a strong but fragile system, and can't really expand. Eventually someone else was going to amass more power just by being able to expand their polity and it would all be over for Sparta as it's always one disaster away from a vicious spiral, so tactically strong, incredibly so, but strategically accepting flaws to get that tactical strength and with difficulty in changing their strategic balance. Unless they modernised from Lycurgus.

    • @makhs8750
      @makhs8750 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Corrupted Archangel
      Well there are modern Spartans but they are just ordinary people

  • @tolaras1571
    @tolaras1571 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    This was extremely accurate. Bravo . Also it was custom that no spartan could return from battle defeated . Other cities embraced this but Sparta had a saying ή ταν η επί τας (meaning that he shall return or a Victor or on his shield

  • @KittyAwesomnessgirl1
    @KittyAwesomnessgirl1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love the random shouts and pledges to sparta throughout the video

  • @MrCeruleanWolf
    @MrCeruleanWolf 8 ปีที่แล้ว +186

    There's a small part of me that would have liked to be born a spartan in that time

    • @merchantofmogadishu3579
      @merchantofmogadishu3579 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Luis Miguel Andrade omg ikr

    • @CidGuerreiro1234
      @CidGuerreiro1234 6 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      Kids who can't live two days without wi-fi saying they'd like to be Spartans, don't make me laugh.

    • @calosbabos
      @calosbabos 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      is that small part of you your brain?

    • @landlockedcroat1554
      @landlockedcroat1554 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      lettuce

    • @closetmonster1533
      @closetmonster1533 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@landlockedcroat1554 here➡️🥬🥬🥬🥬

  • @mr.rifster4188
    @mr.rifster4188 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You have the best voice

  • @sophiawang2655
    @sophiawang2655 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I really like the music at the end of the video :)

  • @joannaveltri699
    @joannaveltri699 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I like the sound effects whenever someone says sparta

  • @voltsu
    @voltsu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    i like hearing the man in the background shout SpARtA at the top of his lungs every 30 seconds.

  • @fairy11227
    @fairy11227 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Bro explained this to me better than my own history teachers 😂❤

  • @lamb9968
    @lamb9968 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is madness!!!!
    THIS...
    IS....
    SPARTA!!!!

  • @jamesgoodman5102
    @jamesgoodman5102 8 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    +RocketPawnch
    00:25
    00:38
    01:03
    01:12
    01:38
    02:06
    03:16
    03:41
    03:55
    03:56

    • @sjoker27
      @sjoker27 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hahahaha dude got it down to a t
      Hahaha

    • @jamesgoodman5102
      @jamesgoodman5102 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Jake Roosenbloom
      you can't click on the timestamps to check until after you've posted them

    • @TurnOntheBrightLights.
      @TurnOntheBrightLights. 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Jam Goodman Lol good shit, that was quick.
      Also SPARTA!

    • @ILotusI
      @ILotusI 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Jam Goodman You nailed it bro.

    • @StrangeDad
      @StrangeDad 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Jam Goodman Nice job! I would change 03:41 to 03:40 though, to give it some room. :)

  • @aryanswonderworld3256
    @aryanswonderworld3256 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    THIS...
    IS
    A really great lesson

  • @muhammadsukron6423
    @muhammadsukron6423 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The "spartaa" chant in background sound just made me feel rage.

  • @goatboy4018
    @goatboy4018 8 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    THIS...IS......TED-ED!!

  • @Emme-Kappa
    @Emme-Kappa 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The music feels like something straight up from Age of Empires, I loved it.

  • @dropPlaydead
    @dropPlaydead 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This video gives me goosebumps. Besides the fact that many boys died during their training.

    • @Fat-Queen1
      @Fat-Queen1 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Why?

  • @giorgosvito6450
    @giorgosvito6450 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    this great and I am from greece and this episode got the spartans spot on subscribing right now

  • @pschroeter1
    @pschroeter1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love this format for history lessons.

  • @TurnOntheBrightLights.
    @TurnOntheBrightLights. 8 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I love how often this vid keeps saying SPARTA! We should start a timestamp chain of 'em.

    • @sjoker27
      @sjoker27 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Gets me too haha

    • @Robert-lb7jq
      @Robert-lb7jq 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +RocketPawnch Someone did that already,come back to this vid.

    • @TurnOntheBrightLights.
      @TurnOntheBrightLights. 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Robert +Jake Roosenbloom Haha wow already!

  • @boy638
    @boy638 8 ปีที่แล้ว +738

    BUT.....do they have WiFi back then?

    • @siddharthakousik6118
      @siddharthakousik6118 8 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      Only for the transgenders.

    • @stefann7144
      @stefann7144 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      boy638 How do they live like this!?

    • @justinmarkrivera5092
      @justinmarkrivera5092 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      hammerbomb bact tyen we used to throw rocks at rocks and then kick rocks at rocks, spit rocks at rocks and you get the idea, the best movie was always the front row seat of the wars.

    • @Zharque
      @Zharque 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Internet killed physical training culture

    • @orangesolarflare4228
      @orangesolarflare4228 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ya....
      No

  • @thequeensconquerer316
    @thequeensconquerer316 8 ปีที่แล้ว +229

    I'm happy to not be a Spartan boy

  • @arthurhenriqued.a.ribeiro2078
    @arthurhenriqued.a.ribeiro2078 7 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Literally went to Google Translate and translated what the tombstones said.
    "Leonidas died in battle. YPG" (YPG? What?)
    "Helen died at childbirth. YO" (Uhhh...)

    • @Thebestusername-fy5sl
      @Thebestusername-fy5sl 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah, unfortunately ancient Greek dialect is different to modern Greek dialect.

    • @giannisdrou1199
      @giannisdrou1199 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ypg and uo are numbers probably the uear they died

    • @chrisgodliker
      @chrisgodliker 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Even i being greek really dont know what it means

  • @myork9203
    @myork9203 8 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    they were f***ing badass!!!

  • @PunitaBhardwaj
    @PunitaBhardwaj 8 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    this is SPARTAAAAAAA!

  • @hellenicnationalist7061
    @hellenicnationalist7061 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    PROUD TO BE GREEK!

  • @pixocatl
    @pixocatl 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Gracias por tan excelente vídeo.

  • @puteriqrahim9985
    @puteriqrahim9985 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I like how the spartan shouted the word sparta.They were like "SPARTA!!!"

  • @goldbristow7239
    @goldbristow7239 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It is a very violent, and harsh society But we gotta learn from them that it's important to be strong and capable of many things while staying resilient, And that makes a person well-rounded.

  • @TOFKAS01
    @TOFKAS01 8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    And Sparta died while Athen and the others survived. So much about the survival-fitness of a warrior-culture.

    • @Fearofthemonster
      @Fearofthemonster 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +TOFKAS01 The culture killed them. They had to rely on the slaves. And they didn't have the numbers necessary.

    • @TOFKAS01
      @TOFKAS01 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Fearofthemonster
      No wonder when you kill a lot of children right after birth and let the rest become gay warriors. The you will always have a dangerous shortage in people.

    • @giorgosurban
      @giorgosurban 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +TOFKAS01 homosexuality was condemned by laws in ancient Sparta. If they found homosexuals they executed them. You idiots believe everything you read in the internet

    • @TOFKAS01
      @TOFKAS01 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ΕΛΛΑΣ GREECE Well, the history and logic showed that homosexuality maybe can be forbidden by laws. But that doesnt chance much. Especialy in Sparta were the young boys only had there own comrades around them. Of course a lot of these spartan warriors were homosexualls. And that Sparta had forbidden this only showed that it was a real problem.
      You can count on it that they had forbidden it because too many spartan warriors stayed with there comrades together even after miltiary service.

    • @TOFKAS01
      @TOFKAS01 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ΕΛΛΑΣ GREECE
      "but its a very small percentage"
      Ehm, nope, this "small percentage" was asumably the majority which was gay or bisexual by education and culture. When you see the rituals and the cultural education oft ancient greek, then you can clearly see that bisexuality and gay relationships were common.

  • @haunts89
    @haunts89 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    "Mommy, look at this hunky guy with a spear! I'm gonna be like him when I grow up!"

  • @কোনোনামনেই-স২ঝ
    @কোনোনামনেই-স২ঝ 8 ปีที่แล้ว +99

    do one on Ancient Caliphate

    • @lynardramos5448
      @lynardramos5448 8 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      +Tashfi Khan always beheading

    • @PicklePickle7
      @PicklePickle7 8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      +Lynard Ramos *sigh*

    • @CD-123
      @CD-123 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      কোনো নাম নেই fuck islam

    • @ShehuStebe
      @ShehuStebe 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Daniel Peace your comment and name causes great irony

  • @FrozenCappucino
    @FrozenCappucino 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    These boys literally lived by the saying “he’s only sorry he got caught.”

  • @MrSmashmouth07
    @MrSmashmouth07 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    these videos are great just not long enough for me but great job making them

  • @vikingwolf4328
    @vikingwolf4328 8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Could you talk about the vikings or the life of norse people in scandinavia?

  • @elphaba4674
    @elphaba4674 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The random man yelling "SPARTA!" Is great! 👌🤣

  • @shrikrishnajugtawat4639
    @shrikrishnajugtawat4639 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I really want to get that Spartan training and become like them. Anyone else?

    • @FidaAifiya
      @FidaAifiya 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      me.

    • @shrikrishnajugtawat4639
      @shrikrishnajugtawat4639 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Giannis Balagiannis hey… hey… nobody demanded your intelligence. keep it to your self. ok!

    • @FidaAifiya
      @FidaAifiya 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Giannis Balagiannis i like history too but i havent really read about spartan training. I watched 300 :v

    • @averagetoad2802
      @averagetoad2802 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mega Mind I kinda want it too but without the whipping

    • @ashutoshprakash3017
      @ashutoshprakash3017 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      i would die the second i was born there

  • @Riodel1
    @Riodel1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The soundtrack is awesome

  • @AMEERHAMZA-gr2jj
    @AMEERHAMZA-gr2jj 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for such informative knowledge

  • @3dScience_uk
    @3dScience_uk 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Nice video!
    Please make more on Ancient Athens, Alexander the Great, Aristotle etc

  • @juliennepdy
    @juliennepdy 8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    So, Spartans were literate but didn't believe in leaving behind records? Okay, that kind of confuses me a bit because isn't the point (or one of the points) of literacy to leave information behind that others can learn from?

    • @vecolaptor
      @vecolaptor 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      even socrates didnt believe in written speech and leaving behind written literacy so that kind of ideology isnt that hard to believe even though i doubt the reasons the spartans had for doing it were the same

  • @youseemunsettled
    @youseemunsettled 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Sparta was an inhuman state still 300 and Assassin’ Creed Odyssey makes me love it

  • @Thionzi
    @Thionzi 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Every time you read a TH-cam comment saying "so basically," take a shot. You are observing someone trying to melt down a complex series of relationships to prove an inconsequential point. *slams shot*

  • @AMEERHAMZA-gr2jj
    @AMEERHAMZA-gr2jj 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I like this channel very much.

  • @sharktamer7306
    @sharktamer7306 8 ปีที่แล้ว +454

    THIS...
    IS...
    a comment.

    • @jsshadow-lurker5152
      @jsshadow-lurker5152 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      sharktamer So original 😂👍

    • @IgnusNilsen
      @IgnusNilsen 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      SPARTA is my city

    • @josepalomino9321
      @josepalomino9321 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Unsatisfie D

    • @tylerblevins6686
      @tylerblevins6686 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      sharktamer u

    • @haydenalexjo
      @haydenalexjo 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      🏚️🏕️🏗️🗺️🏜️🌏🌍🌎🌐🏛️🏝️🏟️🏣🏢

  • @ibrahimzahidmalik4450
    @ibrahimzahidmalik4450 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The rest of Greece:
    "We have walls!"
    Sparta:
    "We have a hul-...oh wait no...bad timing...uhhh...we are the walls!!!"

    • @AceSlaanesh
      @AceSlaanesh 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      They had 300 Hulks, every warrior was an equivalent of Hulk

    • @ibrahimzahidmalik4450
      @ibrahimzahidmalik4450 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AceSlaanesh I guess their Hulk would've been Hercules.....less greener but more famous

  • @davidwilkerson1032
    @davidwilkerson1032 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Im loving this channel (Brazil)

  • @cruz191091
    @cruz191091 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Spartans were assigned an Erotes(an older man) when they join the agoge. The younger student was called Eromenos which means the beloved. They were encouraged to have a homoerotic relationship. This was done to create a bond within the army so that they'll fight well to defend what they love. Sparta was a martial society to the utmost.

    • @ayhahga727
      @ayhahga727 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I've never heard any mention of that in my history course, there's no way that's true.

    • @TimothyDunnTeachmetopreach
      @TimothyDunnTeachmetopreach ปีที่แล้ว

      Pederasty was commin in the earlier part of Spartan history. In fact, there are some suggestions that one could be fined if they refused to take up an older lover. According to Holland's account in the Persian Wars, most Greek city states practised similarly up until the Classical era.

  • @jacksonreid4824
    @jacksonreid4824 8 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    *WE ARE THE BORG- I MEAN SPARTA. YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED.*

    • @nettart4924
      @nettart4924 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      *WE WILL ADD YOUR BIOLOGİCAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL DISTINCTIVENESS TO OUR OWN. YOUR CULTURE WILL ADAPT TO SERVICE US. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.*

    • @aneggselentfellow5607
      @aneggselentfellow5607 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      r/unexpectedstellaris?

    • @jacksonreid4824
      @jacksonreid4824 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@aneggselentfellow5607 bruh this comment is 4 years old

  • @frankl7370
    @frankl7370 8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    What is the logic of malnutrition at a critical age for physical growth, to produce the strongest warrior? Surely, this practice hindered the potential for their warriors to reach full physical peak?

    • @4ur3n
      @4ur3n 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      it was more like short periods and not the whole time

    • @matthewsantos422
      @matthewsantos422 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Bruh you think they knew that in like 100 B.C?

  • @prakharchaudhary9797
    @prakharchaudhary9797 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I heard that if a warrior in sparta died in battle, he would be carried on a shield.
    As they say Come with your shield or on it.

  • @karthikbharadwaj9949
    @karthikbharadwaj9949 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fun fact:
    In Sanskrit "Sparta" or "Sparda" means Fearsome championship or Duel. It is cognate with English word "Sports".

  • @MaxHohenstaufen
    @MaxHohenstaufen 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    A great example of a totalitarian and utilitarist state in ancient times.

  • @mlazos
    @mlazos 8 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    Too much violence. No human rights. Spartans were brutal too. They fought for Greece occasionally as many other cities did. But overall they destroyed more than they built.

    • @TheMalappapas
      @TheMalappapas 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      +mlazos can you name one city at the time that cared about human rights?

    • @mlazos
      @mlazos 8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      +Malappapas not the way we mean it now but all other cities were a lot better compared to Sparta. Science, philosophy and arts changed the world. Socrates was Athenian, Aristotle was Macedonian, Pythagoras from Samos, Archimedes from Syracuse, Sapho from Lesbos, Eratosthenes from Alexandria, etc etc. The people who created civilisation were not Spartans. So yes Sparta was about violence and war. New nations like USA might like violence but they are like children right now. Once you they grow older and become mature they will enjoy peace. My hero is Aristoteles because he changed the world. Im not a psychopath and i dont like violence.

    • @infernocop1009
      @infernocop1009 8 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      +mlazos
      "New nations like USA might like violence but they are like children"
      The fuck does that even mean? You know those city states you're holding up on a pedestal were at war almost constantly, right?
      Public executions and invasion for no other reason than to conquer were standard the world over until the 20th century. Compared to the vast majority of history, modern countries are kinda peaceful.

    • @TheMalappapas
      @TheMalappapas 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      mlazos You have a point. But athenians werent really the angels of ancient greece. See the peloponnisian war for exaple. Sparta teamed with other cities against athens because they were scared that athens had too much power on their hands (imagine that SPARTANS being afraid of athens). Some cities teamed with athens and others were forced to. Long story short athens lost the war. Spartas allies wanted to enter athens and burn it to the ground. Instead sparta signed peace with athens if they agreed to send their ships, take down their walls and have common enemies. Sparta werent the uncivilized brutes most people think they were. Simply sparta was based on honor (just like said in the video) and athens on development. Also philosophy and maths are not the main characteristics of civilization. They help advance a civilization. Sparta was a civilized town

    • @mlazos
      @mlazos 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Muninn Huginn the Persians didn't appear as savages and also the story was written by Greeks, the Persian enemies. Also the modern historians use multiple sources. If you dont believe this video here, then why are you writing? The Spartans were not civilised. I like democracy not dictatorship. I dont want violence.

  • @ChiRonChiaren
    @ChiRonChiaren 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "I heard you have walls...
    But can you DANCE?!"
    *thrusts hips*

  • @user-se8mi2io1v
    @user-se8mi2io1v 8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Do you know something about crypteia? Oh, this is a good tradition of Sparta. This little teen spartans were allowed to kill every slave, which in Sparta called helots, if they see him on a road. What a lovely tradition.

    • @ettoredangelo1744
      @ettoredangelo1744 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Chuj Chujek That's not completely true. Crypteia was something like an exam: the young spartan had to kill the strongest of the heliots he could find before the new day after a week left nude in the mountains.
      Little problem for the young spartan: he could not use any kind of weapon

    • @user-se8mi2io1v
      @user-se8mi2io1v 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ettore d'angelo
      "The magistrates from time to time sent out into the country at large the most discreet of the young warriors, equipped only with daggers and such supplies as were necessary. In the day time they scattered into obscure and out of the way places, where they hid themselves and lay quiet; *but in the night they came down into the highways and killed every Helot whom they caught.*"
      -"Life of Lycurgus", Plutarch.

    • @thesecretlibrary890
      @thesecretlibrary890 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@user-se8mi2io1v
      Reason is, *they were still on war and didn't want slaves to rise up.*

  • @harishrajkumar3425
    @harishrajkumar3425 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Philip II of Macedon, who conquered several Greek states sent a messenger to Sparta, saying something along the lines of "If I invade your city, you will be crushed forever, never to rise again." The Spartans simply replied with one word:
    "If"

    • @Σοβαρευτείτε
      @Σοβαρευτείτε 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      He was Greek

    • @_jpg
      @_jpg 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That was already after they were "crushed" by the Sacred Band of Thebes and the number of Spartiates fell under 750.
      When the Spartan king Agis III. revolted against Alexander the Great in 331 BCE, they were defeated again - not by Alexander, but his regent Antipater, who had to use the few troops Alexander left in Greece, before going on his campaign against Persia. Despite being even financed by the Persians and recruiting veterans from their army, Agis died in retreat.
      All hat and no cattle.

  • @immaguardianzoner
    @immaguardianzoner 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is so helpful ! Thank you so much 😊😊!

  • @pericanet
    @pericanet 8 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    why no one wants to say that they were gay

    • @pericanet
      @pericanet 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Blitter Copper ha ha go to school again

    • @legendofthefall7082
      @legendofthefall7082 8 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      +Blitter Copper dude I have Greek ancestry but even I can admit that a lot of Spartan Warriors were definitely gay. When fighting battles far away from Sparta they would often engage in homosexual acts to maintain morale. This is a widely recognized fact.

    • @legendofthefall7082
      @legendofthefall7082 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +Blitter Copper no because the Persian Kings would bring their entire court of gold, silver, jewelry, women, etc with them when they went off on a campaign. Spartans were excellent warriors who moved quickly, so they only brought minimal supplies and a few slaves with them on campaigns.

    • @legendofthefall7082
      @legendofthefall7082 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +Blitter Copper historum.com/ancient-history/71863-what-s-accurate-story-spartans-sexuality.html

    • @legendofthefall7082
      @legendofthefall7082 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +Blitter Copper there's tons of it if you're willing to look. Don't let your nationalism blind you.