The story of Sparta reminds me a lot of an old Mongolian saying. "Stepping on a horse and conquering the world is easy. Stepping down and ruling it is difficult."

@arthas640

4 жыл бұрын

Probably why Mongolian conquerors and their descendants often lost most of their turf as soon as their leader died where greece was a major power until the mid 1400s

@AG26498

4 жыл бұрын

@@arthas640 their empires where short lived. But Turks and Mongols where feared until the 16 century when guns where invented.

@arthas640

4 жыл бұрын

@@AG26498 Turks yes but were the mongols still feared? I thought the mongols were pretty much just backwoods herders by the time the Ming took control in the 1300s. They had ruled china for awhile but I thought their power was steadily diminishing through the 1300s

@arthas640

4 жыл бұрын

@_Vanzz _ I always did find it kind of hilarious how the massive Chinese empire that liked to think of themselves as the most advanced, civilized country on earth had such a hard time defending themselves from tiny Mongolia.

@dr.floridaman4805

4 жыл бұрын

@_Vanzz _ the retreat while dropping loot tactic only to ambush from horseback archer was genius. So many generals fell into the trap. Or to bribe the enemy with so much wealth that it slowed them down only to be wiped out and the treasure secured.

Sparta fell because Alexios raided 50 forts, 120 camps, and murdered a crap ton of leaders

@arthas640

4 жыл бұрын

Seems like alexios was on to something

@tiantian4593

4 жыл бұрын

hahahaha, in that way it loses a vast amount of nation power

@Revick_Revas

4 жыл бұрын

Gotta get 100% done.

@emstriker4766

4 жыл бұрын

Yes sir

@lyhthegreat

4 жыл бұрын

don't forget the trusty hawk he used to scout them fortresses before he launched his raids

amazing how history keeps repeating itself. one moment you're unbeatable, the next you're a roman tourist attraction.

@SuperChuckRaney

2 жыл бұрын

Ticket, tickets, get your ticketistus here! See the mighty Spartans!! See that one guy get kicked into the well!! NO really SEE him !! We use slaves for that part, they never see it coming!!

@paintriarchdave7977

2 жыл бұрын

Or a pile of rubble 🤣 wanna see an old building some assholes built?...pass...I work in a building assholes built and it has a toilet & tv in it.

@kairos4484

2 жыл бұрын

@@paintriarchdave7977 Ok

@flawlessvictory6470

2 жыл бұрын

Nobody is unbeatable forever ~ Ipman

@ethansscc

2 жыл бұрын

*greek

1. The Spartans were too selective so they couldn't produce enough soldiers to keep up with the times. 2. The Spartans were people of war, rightfully so to protect themselves but when they were blessed with the power over Greece, they abused it like wild dogs and didn't understand the outer societies enough to control it. Sparta was a Chad that had it all and let it get to his head. After getting humbled, he went fat, drank too much beer, and died being a parody of his glory days.

@theveryproudmoroccan2834

3 жыл бұрын

FINALLY SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS SPARTA.

@AbuHajarAlBugatti

2 жыл бұрын

Not too selective. The women just didnt wanna have children anymore as they took over the wealth, trade and land. Basically feminism. Germsny has 1.1 children(already including the migrants who have 4-5). So rral germans maybe have 1 Child per 4 women

@dionysis8680

2 жыл бұрын

Since we have an example of what it takes to go 1v100 why didn't everyone followed the best example ? Ego always makes the best justifications, But the Fact was That they created a recipe of Ultimate Success, and Yes it contains pain SO WHAT ? . Now the weak lead and they make laws to sustain their chair out of greed. The natural way is stay behind the strong let them create a safe path. Letting the weak take control over the Strong and let the fear rule is a recipe of absolute Doom.

@AbuHajarAlBugatti

2 жыл бұрын

@@dionysis8680 you are obviously uneducated about your own countries history. Read my comment. Their obsessive selection was a recipe for their Doom and turned the Women into proto-feminists who rather banged the Helot slaves than having children with the closetgay spartans who would kill most of them anyway. Before rome took over Sparta once and for all the country was fully owned and led by rich Women. Also the Lakadeimonians and especially their women were known to have Blonde hair. How many Greek nowadays even look European? Lol reminds me of the greek vs turk debate meme that the average turk looks more european than the average greek

@20jumps

2 жыл бұрын

@@AbuHajarAlBugatti it's obvious that you don't know anything about history and just go by stereotypes

In a Simple Sentence "Sparta was killed by it's own Rules"

@truaitchgoldi2963

4 жыл бұрын

Don't you mean "Sparta was killed..."? Or is that a grammatically correct sentence?

@madkilla707

4 жыл бұрын

@@truaitchgoldi2963 good Point Thanks For The Correction

@nadra2409

4 жыл бұрын

@@madkilla707 you know what man, you earn my respect..it is seldom to find people accepting corrections...that's humility.. keep that attitude bro..

@yaccumarron

4 жыл бұрын

In order to grow you need to be self aware and accepting your mistakes and use the mistakes to grow stronger

@birdmusic1206

4 жыл бұрын

@@yaccumarron that's true, and it's especially hard for me to grow because I never make mistakes.

Long story short: Earthquake and low population

@johnlawrence2757

4 жыл бұрын

Steven Wertyuiooo lack of good quality adhesive

@kyleminks6374

4 жыл бұрын

Steven Wertyuiooo lesbomancy

@3PercentNeanderhal

4 жыл бұрын

Hubris

@billmaster1157

4 жыл бұрын

So it’s entirely possible Sparta could have existed for much longer. Damn.

@kyleminks6374

4 жыл бұрын

Billmaster115 yes all of their men dying through history brought their demise

Legend never die. No King rule forever, but the fact that we still talk about Sparta till this day, their reputation reached the heaven

@zavthe1371

2 жыл бұрын

Or because of the movie lmao

@MultiJuanito5

2 жыл бұрын

Or because of god of war

@ironsideeve2955

2 жыл бұрын

@@zavthe1371 the massive boost that a few movies have given Sparta makes me wonder what other civilisations there were that are not in our foremost thoughts…

@sanisacse6577

2 жыл бұрын

@@zavthe1371 the movie was made because of Sparta itself.

@messithegoat7178

2 жыл бұрын

@@sanisacse6577 no it's entirely based on a comicbook.

Also, Sparta faced an everlasting internal struggle between the 'Spartans' and the 'Helots'. The Helots where a people that where enslaved by the Spartans and it was through the amazing labor of the Helots, providing Sparta with the essential goods a kingdom needs, that Sparta could maintain its militaristic culture. The downside, for the Spartans at least, was that the Spartans needed enough men at home to keep the Helots in check. This situation put immense stress on the Spartan military. Of course diminishing the amount of troops available in the field. I think this is important to note as a compliment to this great video. :)

@Vote_Blue

2 жыл бұрын

a lot of people like to ignore that the spartans were the only greeks that ever enslaved other greeks.

@dundanny3048

2 жыл бұрын

@@Vote_Blue That's not even remotely true I think. Slavery was probably 'normal' in the ancient world

@noodleknight7924

2 жыл бұрын

Your comment is great. The video was shit (exactly because it ignored what you posted). Sparta was 90% helots. It was a huge slave-nation, where the upper class leeched the hell out of it's lower class, which was the whole reason Sparta could keep up their military parade, instead of focusing more on economy. It was never muh bravery bullshit, it was a very aggressive military dictatorship of the upper class over sparta's real population. This is by far the biggest reason Sparta could never grow and would eventually fall, yet videos like these constantly ignore it because they would rather fondle the balls of the viewers who just want to hear "muh glory and bravery" of their imagined historical utopias.

@kariolm2579

Жыл бұрын

@@dundanny3048 It was, but not in a way it was in Sparta. While a concept of chattel slavery was common in Greece, the state slavery practiced by Sparta was unique to Sparta. While slaves in other city-states were personal property and could be (and regularly were) given freedom, Helots were property of Spartan state and were only loaned to Spartans, together with the land they worked and lived on. A spartan could never legally free his slave(s), since they were not his and state was legally banned from doing so. Second issue was "downwards inheritance" of your social status, meaning you'd inherit status of lower parent. That means that a Spartan could only be born to two Spartan parents, which killed population of their warrior caste in about 2 centuries when Sparta was a powerful city state.

@BorisMarques14.88

Жыл бұрын

@@noodleknight7924 Its not just because of that, telling the truth about sparta and the helots its saying what we can expect in the long term from the current multicultural policy in europe.

Sparta fell because Kratos destroyed it and left.

@taco741

4 жыл бұрын

Unenthusiastic Person underrated comment

@billbates5475

4 жыл бұрын

@@taco741 Kratos existed in mythology. The real reason why Sparta faded was because it never wanted to accept new blood and the constant wars meant that they needed that. They were extremely rigid. Sparta was the truest form of absolute and completely state dominated military society ever in the history of mankind. From birth to death you were told whether you were allowed to live and if you were allowed to even have a tombstone when you died. You literally could not die without permission save the fact of old age or during a battle. If you had gotten a disease and died, it was viewed as a weakness and your family paid that price. You could not even get sick and die without a form of some punishment. It was definitely not for the weak.

@Spartan31AA

4 жыл бұрын

@@billbates5475 Nah, Kratos was real and he definitely fucked up the city. Theres even a game about this dude Kratos.

@billbates5475

4 жыл бұрын

@@Spartan31AA correct, there is a game but Kratos is from comic books, fantasy stories and games. Nothing else. He was not the god of war that so many mistaken him for either The ancient Greek god of war was Aris.

@sheyedafjf9912

4 жыл бұрын

This nigga got me crying

Another note: spartan population was always on a decline because of their strict selection. Its thought their highest peak was when the Spartans first populated the land around 40,000

@anonaka131

3 жыл бұрын

Quality is important but number important too

@AwesomeTheAsim

2 жыл бұрын

@@anonaka131 Number is definitely important. Look at WW2, USSR won thanks to it's population.

@CarlosGarcia-nl8jj

2 жыл бұрын

@@AwesomeTheAsim No, USSR survive thx to their populations it was their incredible industrial power and a lot of natural resources what in the end defeater germany, basicallt they spamed tanks like it was nothing.

@AwesomeTheAsim

2 жыл бұрын

@@CarlosGarcia-nl8jj They could spam tanks bc of their giant population. If Britain suffered as much as USSR they'd no longer exist. i

@Maolus

2 жыл бұрын

@@AwesomeTheAsim the Soviet Union's population was pretty much equal to that of the European Axis members combined, and after Barbarossa pretty much half of the soviet population fell under german occupation, so no, their population wasn't giant

"Leonidas led his 300 men, with some help from other Greeks." Some help? 6,000-7,000 soldiers counts as "some help?" lol

@twujstara8066

3 жыл бұрын

at the beggining of battle the help was 700 becouse leonidas ordered the rest of them to retreat

@TheNeonParadox

3 жыл бұрын

Bro, there were over 700 thespians at this battle. lol. Now, perhaps we can agree that the Spartans had a great strategy for this battle, but that's not what happened. Realistically, about 40,000 Persians put down about 10,000 Greeks, and the majority of that was legitimately because of treachery. Oh well, the Greeks still won the war.

@nobleman9393

3 жыл бұрын

Yes lol

@MyHentaiGirlNeko

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheNeonParadox fucking hate Hollywood sometime, teaching people wrong information

@thewordoflynx8095

3 жыл бұрын

@@MyHentaiGirlNeko Not that I disagree with that statement, but 300 isn't meant to be historically accurate

Funny how sparta had this ever shrinking pool of mən who could become solders and then you got Rome who after suffering 3 defeat one of them losing over 100 000 men could just spit out another army.

@30cal23

3 жыл бұрын

basically a swords and spears version of the eastern front "we secured leningrad but lost 500k men and cant replace them, sir we ne-" *hears URRRRAAAAA* "Unteroffizier what do you need?" *hears gunshot at other end of radio*

@martiawesome

3 жыл бұрын

Thats because a lot of people wanted to become romans themselves, italian allies wanted to be part of the roman world,wheres sparta is very exclusively to spartans only,thats why Rome conquered the whole mediterrenean

@elseggs6504

2 жыл бұрын

@@30cal23 neither the nazis nor the finns managed to take it. And btw, the Soviets just had a waaaay larger reserve than the fascists anticipated. They didnt expect to face even more troops after being this close to Moscow. Hell, the Axis outnumbered the Soviets and still lost the war.

@dragooll2023

2 жыл бұрын

@@martiawesome Fake and oversimplified

@TheParez

2 жыл бұрын

Quality over quantity...

Fun fact, modern day sparta is the most conservative and or right wing city in Greece.

@jakubfiser5246

4 жыл бұрын

That's how it should be everywhere. 🔥

@WERTYUIO821

4 жыл бұрын

They are right wing but more into king than fasism. Modern day Sparta(the area) used to be in favour of king since the first king of Greece. About the "conservative" it depends on what you mean by it.

@tylerkriesel8590

4 жыл бұрын

@@jakubfiser5246 exactly!

@wolfsden6479

4 жыл бұрын

@@WERTYUIO821 ah yes yet another who thinks fascism is conservative

@samueldocski4426

4 жыл бұрын

Wolf's Den morons. Fascism advocates for socialistic ideologies. It’s more left leaning than right. It emphasizes the “people” and socialized systems. Conservativism is freedom.

In summary: They thrived while no one could defeat them in battle. Once people adapted to their strategy, they were no longer impervious to defeat. Their low population couldn't support losing battles and they withered.

@LettucePlate

4 жыл бұрын

@John doue Quebec Unbeatable is a hyperbole. But they were extremely powerful, yes.

@jidk6565

4 жыл бұрын

@E Fig that is literally the point he was making As long as they had there strategies and victories they seemed unstoppable The second thebes adapted, they lost there statuesque persona of being unstoppable

@marcinmostek1242

4 жыл бұрын

Skrt Skrt so they did a Rome or a china and failed to adapt (Rome as in the WRE and china for most of history)

@kanekane1265

4 жыл бұрын

Sparta never was that huge powerhouse, most of it is a myth, ancient propaganda. Their battle tactics were risky as hell. They overloaded one wing with all their elite fighters to overwhelm the opposition, but without any backup plan. If this failed, they would lose a lot of their best fighters in one sweep. The only reason, they could become nr.1 among Greek poleis for a short time, was due to a deal with Persia. But they were not good enough in polticis to keep this position and ultimately lost it very fast. At the end of the day it all was wasted energy anyways, with the rise of Rome, the Greek cities were done anyways, no matter what they would have done before.

@ninjaked1265

4 жыл бұрын

Their low population was probably caused by infanticide

"Under the Romans Sparta was a tourist attraction" Why I imagine Spartans wearing cheap costumes doing reenactments for rich Romans?

@MandalorV7

4 жыл бұрын

Hoàng Nguyên history is just the present retold.

@dc6288

3 жыл бұрын

The Labyrinth would be modern 'Halloween Horror Nights'. @ Universal Studios.

@evanw2195

3 жыл бұрын

Jacob Clark not exactly, history is way weirder

@pablogats4627

3 жыл бұрын

@Hoàng Nguyên could have done without your homosexual fantasies but yea depressing

@pablogats4627

3 жыл бұрын

@Hoàng Nguyên sure I've heard it all before from British "historians"

Imagine being such a beast that people still talk in awe about it almost 3000 years later.

@tsdobbi

Жыл бұрын

It was more "image" than reality. They never actually did anything of note that would constitute a legacy of being the "best warriors ever". I mean, they didn't win at Thermopolyae, and who knows how well they "actually" performed there. There is no history of them just cleaning house in pitched battles on the regular. A lot of what we get about the Spartans is actually from other Greek city states. Building up your enemy served a political purpose for when you beat them. The Romans were really notorious for this, building their enemies up to be unstoppable war monsters, but hey, I defeated them, how awesome am I? I think about the only one on the Roman side that wasn't propaganda was Hannibal and Carthage. It was quite clear there was a genuine fear of the Carthaginians on the side of the Romans.

@maximux777

Жыл бұрын

@@tsdobbi it looks like you not know much about Spartans and you don't understand why people keep writing and talking about them. For example you wrote about Carthage. Why you didn't wrote about First Punic War then? Carthage was close to be destroyed... But they had idea to hire Spartan general Xanthippus. Yeah, that general who trained destroyed, demoralized Carthagian army and led them to Victory? If this never happened, you would never hear about Hannibal. And yes Spartans lost battle in Thermopylae, but you didn't study this battle much. If So, you would know they gave time for another Greeks like Athens. So because of Thermopylae, for Persians this was victory but no longer because they were defeat near Salamis and year after BECAUSE of Thermopylae a lot of Hellenic states fight together against Persians in battle of Plataea. Spartans are synonym for discipline, obedience and courage. They are symbol of defiance and in Thermopylae they not fight for Spartans but for whole Hellenic world and their freedom. Spartans were respected by many nations, generals not only in Ancient world... First woman who won Olympic games was from Sparta. Spartan girls received some education and women had more freedom than in other hellenic cities. And search something about Laconic phrase this is from Spartans too.

@interregionalapricot1312

Жыл бұрын

@@maximux777 Most of the critics here stems from the fact that Sparta was not able to maintain their might like Rome did. Sparta's inflexibility to adapt is also something a lot of people and experts are talking about.

Also, the tatics where changing a lot, more and more light infantry and cavalry was being implemented into battles, that before where mostly hoplite engagement only, now archers, slingers, skirmishers and cavalry, specialy thessalian cavalry where becoming more and more used, making the heavy and many times slow and clumsy tight packed hoplites obsolete. Kings and generals explain that well.

@Kealen69

4 жыл бұрын

Hoplites were not at all slow, try on the armor someday, Spartan army was all infantry they viewed archers as cowardly and Spartans could always hold against light cavalry. Sparta's enemies became more professional getting away from militia style armies, they also tried innovative tactics while the Spartans stayed traditional, why change what has always worked in their mind. Ultimately, too many wars drained their very limited manpower and their arrogance made them too many enemies, in the end they brought all of Greece down by dragging the Romans into Greek politics. This made it easy for Rome to divide and conquer where a pure Roman invasion risked uniting Greece against them.

@Cloud43001

4 жыл бұрын

@@Kealen69, The Hoplites WERE slow, not really because of their armor or equipment but because of their fighting style, that is why i said tighly packed formations, just like the Macedon phalanx. figthing in large strict units. The romans had more loose and flexible formations, fought with more spaces between each unit and with smaller units, which is why they beat the macedons, for the macedons worked really badly in rough terrain. That is why there are cases where hoplites where beaten by a more mobile and quick skirmishes, and that is why latter the greek hoplite began to adopt ligher armor and shields as well as cavalry and missile into their ranks.(see king and general for more details) And by the way, withstanding, even light cavalry charge in the front is one thing but cavalry was use in order to flank the enemy army, even Spartan are but mortals, if they where charged at their side or backs while facing their enemy infantry in the front, they would be routed, any army would. mobility in battle is everything, the mongols taught us that very well. EDIT: by the way i am talking about the evolutions in the Peloponessian war and hoplite in general, not just the Spartans, and i said "heavy" in the first post because the hoplites are classified as heavy infantry.

@kweassa6204

4 жыл бұрын

In the end, even that, is a result of a societal collapse due to limitation in their socio-political system. Too few citizens + too many slaves + too much land to exert dominance over = too slow and rigid to change the military system. Things just weren't the same as the "good ol' days" of the Lycurgan reforms.

@Kealen69

4 жыл бұрын

@@Cloud43001 That is why they had reserves on the wings to protect their flanks, Philip and Alexander didn't just ride the companions around the wing and smash them from the rear. They had to open up gaps, drawing the Thebians away from the Athens by fainting then charging the gaps with their cavalry. Romans are a horrible example since they lost as many engagements against the Greeks as they won. The last battle against Macedonia was a gamble by the Macedonians, to attack with only half their forces on uneven ground. Since the second wing hadn't caught up to the first wing they left a huge gap for the Romans to exploit. Greeks vs Romans always came down to the better leadership and terrain so I still don't know what you're talking about. If Pyrrhus had the manpower of all of Greece he couldn've kept going until he got to Rome. The Roman phalanx was never in the same class as the Greeks and they didn't have a lot of cavalry, which usually got routed and chased off the field, so they needed something that worked better for them. Hannibal's phalanx of mercenary Greeks also spanked the Romans. So again I have no idea what you're talking about.

@Cloud43001

4 жыл бұрын

@@Kealen69 remember what you yourself questioned, we are talking about the lack of flexibility and "slowness" of the hoplite, wich is why the hoplite as well as the greeks themselvs started changing how warfare was fought, and the romans are a good example exactly because they won those half engagements base on a more maneuvabre and flexible units. In a head on confrontation indeed the phalanx was overwhelming, you are right in that, but it lacks independent action and at a rought terrain it is more efficient, that is my point. Besides i never said they just "went to the rear and smashed them", i said they engaged first with infantry(center), won the flank cavalry engagement and striked at the rear making a pincer movement. Also i said initially " making the heavy and many times slow and clumsy tight packed hoplites obsolete" because they used to be, before the persian wars, mostly hoplite only engagements which became an obsolete form of warfare, i admit however that i said in a bit misleading way so i apologise.

This is wonderful! I love Spartan history! I made my entire channel’s theme around Sparta!

@aliefalyansyah5996

4 жыл бұрын

Could you do a what if Dutch empire reunited today

@mackycabangon8945

4 жыл бұрын

History Explained *THIS* *IS* *SPARTAA!!*

@LeonidasSparta-Fun-History

4 жыл бұрын

My channel is all about Spartans!

@christianboi2142

4 жыл бұрын

History Explained no you didn’t

@HD13POWER

4 жыл бұрын

Because they vanished and you don't feel in Sparta anymore. Islam is the Strongest Civilization that lived until this day. And will continue even though thry are now poor and weak but their faith is still within their hands.

Video: Why did Sparta Collapse? Comments section: Modern politics shitfest

@arthas640

4 жыл бұрын

I miss the good old days when you could have a civilized debate in the town center, and if they wouldnt see your wisdom you could just tear them over the head with you xiphos

@ignacio9813

4 жыл бұрын

Fuck them libtard fucks...

@neoarmstrongcyclonejetarms9326

3 жыл бұрын

@@ignacio9813 Read Leo’s comment again, you’re contributing to the shitfest in the comments.

@jimboonie9885

3 жыл бұрын

From what I see its the right saying the left is destroying traditions but there is no left...

@jimboonie9885

3 жыл бұрын

@@ignacio9813 Liberalism is unfortunately the future. Well rip democratic socialism

The Greeks fought so hard between themselves that they were so weak that rome could conquer the whole Greek world. It was the biggest mistake. The Greeks should be United how Alexander the Great was dreaming of and did. After Alexander’s dead the Greeks fought between themselves and that was the end of Greece.

@herbthompson8937

2 жыл бұрын

With like 3 legions or something haha. Took like 30 to beat Carthage.

@user-dl9vt8ml7j

2 жыл бұрын

This is the history of Greeks

@tsdobbi

Жыл бұрын

@@herbthompson8937 Well, the main problem was the Greeks didn't get with the times in regard to military tactics. It's like the Roman military organization was designed to defeat the Greek Phalanx. The Phalanx was unwieldy and best performed on flat ground. The Romans fought them where it suited them and they could out maneuver the Greek Phalanx.

@herbthompson8937

Жыл бұрын

@@tsdobbi the Roman military organization was changed when they had to fight the Samnites. Before that, they fought like Greeks in a phalanx essentially.

Short answer: Rome Long answer: Senatus Poplousque Romanus

@sxyz6905

4 жыл бұрын

Shortest answer: UmU

@innosanto

4 жыл бұрын

short answer: low birth rate due to social system long answer: low birth rate and the city system relying on the metics as well

@jdog7797

4 жыл бұрын

*Hubris*

@mattaffenit9898

4 жыл бұрын

Romana Res Publica.

@Saiputera

3 жыл бұрын

@@innosanto not really

One thing that you didn't seem to explain is the fact that Sparta had an enormous slave caste that was vital for it's economy (they practically did everything aside from war ad fighting), and the Spartans regularly went into their habitations and raided them to keep a sense of fear in them. That's why for so long, despute having one of the best military in the ancientg reek world, they didn't go and conquer everything like Rome did.

Athens: no im better Sparta: im better Alexander: hold my coat

@funkeydunkyfication

3 жыл бұрын

He never conquered Sparta ;)

@accurategamer7085

3 жыл бұрын

@@funkeydunkyfication he never got the chance to

@pisaks6782

3 жыл бұрын

@@funkeydunkyfication Because Sparta was worthless at that point and when Sparta went to war against Macedonia to help Persia, Sparta got its ass kicked

@nestororiginal2344

3 жыл бұрын

@@accurategamer7085 Makedonia and Sparta were alies, but they all were hellenistic so there was no reason to conquere Sparta.

@gwynbIeiidd

3 жыл бұрын

@@funkeydunkyfication because he had no reason to as sparta was worthless at that point.

The Romans turned Sparta into the first tourist trap in history, and I can't stop laughing about that.

@histguy101

3 жыл бұрын

There were all sorts of tourist traps. A big one was Troy.

@greasybumpkin1661

2 жыл бұрын

Sparta: we are the chads Rome: we are A D M I N I S T R A T O R S

A Spartan rule was never fight an enemy too often, under the peril he would learn your tactics. I read that somewhere but I am not sure if this was true.

@heathenfire

4 жыл бұрын

this was something napolean also had said.

@Robert53area

4 жыл бұрын

Its also in tzu art of war. It actually states, never fight 2 battles the same way as your tactics are revealed to your enemy every time you press into combat.

@basilikalathas5388

4 жыл бұрын

Yes,that was one of their tactics. Also Spartans never chased their defeated opponents -- that was one of their tactics too.

@paununs8719

4 жыл бұрын

Hmm not only tactics. If you are constantly battling someone, the enemy will become tougher and tougher; more determined and militaristic.

@acrxsls1766

4 жыл бұрын

Except they did and the Thebans defeated them eventually.

Greek history is so fascinating. So many what if thoughts or could of beens. Sparta has always been my biggest interest when it comes to Greek history. Great video man, I very much enjoyed this.

@PMMagro

4 жыл бұрын

The problem is most seems to be what the Athenians or others tell about Sparta and the Spartans. One sure get curious when it is just "unknown" but apperantly important.

@immortal6453

4 жыл бұрын

Just a second watch this video and you will learn that sparta was a place of culture and conservatism ...there was no brutal regim for super soldiers.

This was a excellent video. Thank you for your time you put into this

Good one, I always wondered this! Great video.

In reality, Sparta collapsed, but Spartans never disappeared, they moved their capital from the ancient city which was left abandoned to avoid the Gothic and later Slavic invasions, to some 6 km north at Mystra, and became a respected Medieval power known as the Despotate of Mystra whose Despot (ruler) was one of the sons of the Eastern Roman Emperor. They never succumbed to the Ottomans as they were self-ruled when the whole Balkan peninsula belonged to the Ottoman Empire. Modern Maniots who inhabit the dry and mountainous region of Mani, are considered the descendants of the ancient Spartans, they're similarly fiercely independent, warlike, and continue the tradition of being monarchophile. There's also a region to the east of Laconia, called Tsaconia whose inhabitants -the Tsaconians- speak (or rather, spoke as their language is endangered) a dialect which experts consider as the sole descendant of the ancient Doric dialect of Greek, called Tsaconian, mostly unintelligible to the rest of Greeks due to its archaisms and the different path it took as it evolved. Nativlang has a good video on Tsaconian kzread.info/dash/bejne/YqKsppaAdK2-c9o.html

@wildeyshere_paulkersey853

4 жыл бұрын

My dude, do you have some sort of source or book i can read about this, perhaps drop an Amazon link, because this shit sounds fucking awesome, and i have no clue about it! That has to change! Thanks in advance.

@georgeatallah1128

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this additional knowledge

@equarg

4 жыл бұрын

Αποστόλης Μ. Ok. I tried using google. What is being Monarchopile? Was that an spelling error because google broke looking for that word!

@VeridarRasko

4 жыл бұрын

They disappeared during Roman republic

@4ur3n

3 жыл бұрын

@@equarg "friend" of Monarchy

Sparta fell apart in it's waning years from not only it's defeats, but a population problem. As it was a society of privileged warrior slave owners they were a purely enclosed society that refused to allow outsiders and citizenship to their slave and land owner classes. As with every defeat they lost some of the families in power. With every defeat was an economic loss, and without new citizens and a growing population to counter it's larger enslaved residents, their system began to fall apart. Sparta was destroyed thanks to the very thing that gave them their fame and power, uncomprimising rigidity and tradition that allowed no leeway from the Spartan way.

@MrDeeboi1775

4 жыл бұрын

Same thing will happen to Amerikkka

@frenchguitarguy1091

4 жыл бұрын

Imperador dos Imperadores Afonso Martins oh well I guess it’s true that people never learn from history. Your comment is the best example of this, especially given this video

@cristianvillanueva8782

4 жыл бұрын

@ihateoregonians you dont have water or dairy? Sucks bro my grocery store is still fine other than those moron plebs buying all the hand sanitizer

@gepo6882

4 жыл бұрын

Brandon Boggs from capitalism when apple goes to war with google lol

@cristianvillanueva8782

4 жыл бұрын

@ihateoregonians I'm in one of the more rural part of cali, I'm glad it hasn't been as bad for us. The local food bank has been a life saver

Thebes: Uses military tactics Sparta: Surprised Pikachu face

Quarantine's got me so bored I'm watching actual history to pass the time.

@ianwinfield929

3 жыл бұрын

You’re living through history as we speak

@TrickNPlay

3 жыл бұрын

Unless you have a pre existing condition, I don’t understand why you’re quarantining at this point. The protests have freed everyone.

@forcedtohaveahandle

3 жыл бұрын

dodo2208 nah

@DamianLopez-td3rc

3 жыл бұрын

@dodo2208 I didn't finish them

One word "Thebes" it all started with Thebes beating the shit out of Sparta

@Yiannis2112

4 жыл бұрын

Yes. In conjunction with the fact that after the Peloponnesian war, Sparta despite being the winner, was severely battered and bruised. Unable to confront a serious competitor.

@innosanto

4 жыл бұрын

No, that was just sth that would happen at some point. long story short it was low birth rate ( spartan women and men met old in their lives and made few children and also there were many casualties from battle and Spartans only got full citizens in the army) and also the social system with metics doing all farming and economic activities. metics were many more and when spartans became too few the metics revolted and left. Spartans ( full citizens) had become very very few to both fight and also control the city of metics ( who had not been made part of society and felt foreign and were kept through might in the city). In addition to the above, the Theban phalanx was a very good one , and also the sacred band of Thebes was also very well trained and very disciplined, and Thebans also added tactical innovations with Pelopidas and Epaminondas.

@Yiannis2112

4 жыл бұрын

@@innosanto I was just generalizing, mate. All things you mentioned are true. It's always a combination of reasons. As it is true, that after the Peloponnesian war Sparta was never the same. You needed an excuisite event to exploit all that lurked underneath.

Fun fact: The people of Kalamata(Their ancestors were the Eliots) and the people of Sparte(Their ancestors were the Spartans) of today's Greece stil consider themselves rivals/enemies.

@billykotsos4642

4 жыл бұрын

Citation please

@WERTYUIO821

4 жыл бұрын

@@billykotsos4642 Friends and family from there Κυριως οικογενεια.

@billykotsos4642

4 жыл бұрын

@@WERTYUIO821 Λιγο υπερβολικό μου φαίνεται. Για πλάκα θα το λένε Όχι στα σοβαρά. Έχουν περάσει χιλιάδες χρόνια. Πληθυσμοί έχουν μετακινηθεί δεν βγάζει νόημα πλέον.

@WERTYUIO821

4 жыл бұрын

@@billykotsos4642 Κι ομως φιλε. Τσακωνονται για τα παντα. Απο τους δρομους και τα κτελ μεχρι καθημερινα ζητηματα. Ειναι και διαφορετικα πιστευω πολιτικα(νομιζω η Σπαρτη παντα εβγαζε ΝΔ ενω η Καλαματα παντα Πασοκ/Συριζα κατι τετοιο) με τους Σπαρτιατες να ηταν παντα υποστιρικτες του Βασιλια. Αστα ποιο πολυ τσακωμο σε νομους δεν βλεπεις. Μεχρι και για λιγα εκατοστα γης σε ποιο νομο ανηκει τσακωνονται καθημερινα. Σπαρτη-Καλαματα σε αθλητικες διοργανωεεις τσακωνονται αγρια κ.α. . Τα χιλιαδες χρονια περασαν αλλα τα κοινονικοπολιτικα πιστευω τους δεν αλλαξαν τοσο πολυ.

@billykotsos4642

4 жыл бұрын

@@WERTYUIO821 Τι να πω ρε φίλε δεν είμαι από εκεί και γι'αυτό μου φαίνεται περίεργο. Τώρα αν το πάρεις πολιτικά/κομματικά αλλη πονεμένη ιστορία αυτή.

What he describes about Sparta's fall reminds me very much of Venice. For many centuries Venetians had enjoyed the safest, richest, and most prosperous city state in Italy. But, to the annoyance of the other city states, that wasn't enough. Venice continually attempted to absorb territories belonging to neighboring cities, often by very duplicitous and underhanded means. In particular Venice earned the hatred of all the city states by its policy of inviting the great powers north of Italy to invade in order to weaken Venice's rivals. Because of this nobody was willing to ally with Venice against the Turks or against invasion by the northern powers. Venice's greed and conniving were short-sighted, eventually leading to Venice's isolation and decline.

This is really helpful if you are looking to learn some history. Great job! You've got yourself a new subscriber. :)

I think in sparta just the citizens could become hoplites, and for that you need to own a certain amount of land As the spartan women could inherit land and other things, the number of male citizens droped and so did the number of hoplites. Please correct me if i'm wrong

@michaellewis9465

4 жыл бұрын

Your correct I'm pretty sure the tale of. .raised at a young age to become warriors. is a tale to make sparta seem scary to their enemies

@curtisshaw1370

4 жыл бұрын

It wasn't so much that you had to own a certain amount of property, but it was expensive. Think of the education system for young potential Spartan hoplites as private school. Only a fraction of the population could afford it. Once you became a hoplite, you joined a lodge and had to pay dues. If you couldn't pay for that education or the dues, you fell into a lower social class. Conversely, only those with uninterrupted Spartan heritage were able to raise to the hoplite class. Over time, wealth became concentrated among an ever shrinking number of Spartan women which meant only their children could achieve that status. At the Battle of Plataea, the Spartan Army was comprised of 8,000 Spartiates. By the Battle of Leuctra, their army comprised only about 1,000 Spartiates, over half of whom perished in the battle. In Aristotle's time, forty percent of all Spartan wealth was possessed by a small group of extremely wealthy women, and these Spartan Heiresses were a significant contributing factor to this decline.

@tylerdurden3722

4 жыл бұрын

Sparta's government tried to enact legislation to fix the problem of wealth accumiliting into the hands of a few women, but these women had enough influence and money to prevent that. As such, Sparta was unable to recover.

@Jauhl1

4 жыл бұрын

Kinda. To be a Spartiate you needed a certain amount of wealth and the Spartiates served as hoplites but they weren't the only ones. Even at apex of Sparta's power half of the hoplites were called up from the periokoi, the allies under Sparta's dominion. As fewer Spartiates could afford the citizen required mess fess, they became inferiors, yet these still often served as hoplites without citizen rights. At Leuktra for example, The spartiates were a mere 700 out 11000. Most served as officers and the only "super soldier" formation was the 300 bodyguard around the king.

@tylerdurden3722

4 жыл бұрын

@AJA BOOBOO...Sparta didn't suffer a collapse. - It suffered a decline. - It declined because it's army's size declined. - The size of the army declined because of greater casualties (Eg Luectra, etc) - Males dying at a greater rate, increased the matrilineal inheritance process. - Which is how wealth accumilated into the hands of females. - these wealthy heiresses also used their wealth to stop reform, via bribery. - the army was unable to recover it's numbers because males were unable to inherit land faster than they we're dying and having women inherit it.

No one single greek nation ever existed Alexanders macedonia: am I a joke to you?

@Been2Hell

4 жыл бұрын

The kingdom of Macedonia under Philip II and Alexander did not own the cities of southern Greece. It was a type of forced alliance, not annexation.

@axsun1918

4 жыл бұрын

@@Been2Hell It was "alliance" only in name, but everyone knew that Phillip and Alexander owned all the Greek states. Just ask Thebes what happens when someone questioned their authority...

@hugus800

4 жыл бұрын

Macedonia isn't greece

@kostakws

4 жыл бұрын

@@hugus800 Show me REAL facts, please

@VillaSs4

4 жыл бұрын

​@@hugus800 Macedonia was Greece, is Greece and will be Greece forever It's no secret, everybody educated people of the planet know it! considered self-evident!

For anyone wondering, Sparta had always a great problem with its slaves the heliots. They were so much more numerous than the Spartans that were constantly keeping them nervous and some of their uprisings almost brought the Spartan state down. Moreover, Spartans were aware that they were not indigenous in their land because they settled there after the Doric invasion from the north and they were in a constant state on defence to maintain their power.

Sparta collapsed because of several reasons. One, the needed an able statesmen to help solidify the Peloponnesian League. To provide pro- hellenic measures to gain patriotic unity and fairness to fellow Greeks. Make the Helots and the dwellers around citizens with rights and privileges so they would willingly help the Spartan Military system. They needed more able military commanders like Brasidas, Lysander and Gylippus to make sound successful battle plans and to implement them. To adapt to military changes in strategies and tactics. Initiate less death casualties in the Agoge to produce more professional soldiers that Sparta needed. Develop a better cavalry and use more siege equipment. Unite Greece to the common goal of freeing Asiatic Greeks and to conquer the Persian empire. That is what Sparta needed to do.

*No one can stand for ever, but Sparta proved it's might in it's reign*

@jimboonie9885

3 жыл бұрын

Then athens pooped it

I remember my lecturer telling me about the fall of Sparta. She summarized it in the end that the reason the Spartans were sacked is because the Visogoths had no real prior knowledge and thus fear of Spartan military's might: so they just attacked and proceeded on. There were other factors like a lack of a major enemy for centuries, complacency, the economic crash of the fall of Rome, and more issues. But to summarise it the Visogoths just didn't care who the Spartans were.

@innosanto

4 жыл бұрын

what? No Spartas fall was in 371 BC in essence but in reality before that gradually through the steadily declining population of complete Spartan citizens because Spartan men and women met very old and few times with each other and made few children ( and also metics supporitn the city and when Spartans became too few they revolted and left)

@e.hanker193

4 жыл бұрын

Visigoths? Wat...?

@user-pn4ex3kf4o

3 жыл бұрын

@@e.hanker193 yes they destroyed sparta

@analcommando1124

2 жыл бұрын

Thats like, 7-8 hundred years after the time period this video talks about

@bvillafuerte765

8 ай бұрын

I wonder how your teacher got the degree.

This is a very well done mini doc.

Great video! Very interesting information.

This was fascinating. I've been to Greece twice and it has fantastic people.

@henryabbot8083

4 жыл бұрын

Taxes

@mhdezung

2 жыл бұрын

Debts

This video is alright, but there are some major issues in the information presented here. Firstly, though of only partial significance, is the mispronounciation of the names in the narration, which detracts from the effectiveness of the information. Second, the Battles of Artemisium and Thermopylae were irrelevant, if not completely detrimental to, the story of Sparta. Thermopylae was a pretty story, but largely irrelevant to Sparta's fortunes. The popularity of Sparta was also an irrelevant factor, because Sparta's domination was not dependent upon popular choice. They came to power by force of arms, maintained it through tyrannies and oligarchies, and lost it by force of arms. Most importantly, the video completely misses the reasons for *why* the Spartans collapsed. The video ends with mentioning the 'internal confusion' and weakness of Sparta, but completely omits any explanation of what that weakness was, and where it originated from. This video is essentially a recounting of historical events, but with very little explanation of why these events were significant, and often times, the events were nothing to do with why Sparta fell. There is *no* explanation of the constitution of Sparta, which established an idiosyncratic system from the beginning nor of the internal structure of the state which derived from it. There is no discussion of the way the system set its citizens on a ruinous course from birth, nor of the institution of Helotry, or of the utterly crippling economic system employed by Sparta. The video also makes a statement about the "objective lesson in the relationship between social organization and military power" but completely omits to mention what that lesson is. It is these factors which lead to the collapse of Sparta, not the continuing march of disparate events, which, in of themselves, had no bearing on the collapse of Sparta. In short, it seems largely a collection of historical events and strangely incongruous statements.

@ryanwillett728

2 жыл бұрын

Feel better?

@MohamedRamadan-qi4hl

Жыл бұрын

@@ryanwillett728 all of what he said was correct

Very informative graphic video illustration 👏 👏

Glad your using BC and AD! Great video btw

Sparta will never fall. We're still here!!! 😎

@justicethedoggo3648

Жыл бұрын

Yall suck compared to Macedonias

Imagine being so well trained that every battle in war is in easy mode, wtf.

@laisphinto6372

Ай бұрын

Except when cavalry, slingers,javelinmen or archers are involved

One of the best videos I’ve seen on Ancient Greece.

I was always under the impression that Sparta fell to a slave revolt. Now I know it was much more complicated than that.

The most terrifying thing you can see is a United greece.

@angron2074

4 жыл бұрын

*germany ;-) Learn history :-)

@timomastosalo

4 жыл бұрын

No counry is the mst terrifying thing you can see. God in his anger is the most terrifying thing. Then people wish rather the mountains would fall on them, t hide them from God's judgment. But there's no place to hide from him -the bottom of the see is nt hiidden from him. Just he doesn't want to do that. But if people stay in their evil, they are wipedout the day when the Lord will bring his judge punishment on mankind, for oppressing the poor and weak people, for destroying the environment etc. So the evil will get its judge punishment - the shout of the oppressed has always been heard. Though we all have evil more than we can solve, so we'd all be destroyed, if we don't accept his rescue mission: the salvation from our evil he donated in Jesus suffering for us, the punishment belonging to us, justly.

@ndusenhadrian3078

4 жыл бұрын

@@timomastosalo have you ever seen teletubbies? They got fucking TV's in their bellies that's terrifying as heck

@curtiswong7280

4 жыл бұрын

The most terrifying thing you can see is a united Seljuk horde smashing through anatolia and appearing at your doorstep.

@barbatvs8959

4 жыл бұрын

@@ndusenhadrian3078 I've seen the Telefaggots marching together to Rammstein.

Sparta might be dead on the map but it will always be alive in our hearts

Please have the dates up on screen as you date things happening. THANK YOU!

I'm thankful for playing Assassin's creed odyssey..I am able to understand this video easily because of it. Great content!

When I watch these videos it makes me feel so insignificant. Our lives are so so short.

Glad I've learned what finaly happent to ancient Sparta. I am Greek and I didn't know that.

@zantonsus

4 жыл бұрын

don't google homeland ways to clean plates...please xxx

Great video thank you

Great Video!

Gotta remember that the battle of Thermopylae was in the grand historical setting almost totally irrelevant to the events of the Persian - Greek war and only became romanticized much later as a “east vs west” thing. The battle almost literally had no bearing on the outcome of the war

I think it’s an oversight that you didn’t mention Salamis or Sparta’s role in alienating Themistokles from Athens: explains the awkward growing tensions between the two city states after the Second Persian War and before the Peloponnesian War. Also the lack of the 30 Tyrants here fails to mention Spartas inability to enforce the oligarchic style of the Spartan image

Running out of troops was not a major reason Sparta fell; they were known for their unique ability to defeat larger forces, even during the Peloponnesian war. It was their myopic approach to battle field tactics and refusal to become more maneuver-based, flexible and decentralized. Their reknowned phalanx was literally nullified by the use of a battle formation known as an echelon, which enabled the Thebans to envelop and turn the blocky Spartan formation. Had they become more fluid and adaptable, they certainly would have maintained military dominance and in effect controlled the other states politically. Not everything is about the feelings and sensitivities of the other states.

0:46 the little sound in the background instantly triggered in my brain the memory of Civilization 2 for windows 95

By having a to rigid shape, a to concentrated attention on one side, you loose the ability to defend your self against more clever oponnents. Sparta concentrated their energy on one thing: Warfare! By stepping on everyones toes, ignoring diplomacy, trading and exploring they closed themselfs of. And so it was easier for its enemies to allie with each other and carving the hard "stone" of sparta. Piece by Piece, until it collapsed. If they would be more shapeless, doing more trading, exploring and so on, they would expand much further and would live longer, like Athens. They would be harder to catch, like a slippy Ball and therefore be more powerful in the long run. But yeah, very nice video. Have to do something like that on my channel too. Keep it up! P.S.: The army of Thebes were actually homosexuell. They believed, that men who "love" each other will fight much harder than usuall. And so it came, that the biggest military power in ancient time were defeated by a gay army. Thats no Joke, haha.

@stormedmitchell

2 жыл бұрын

Not the entire army just a regiment

@idnyftw

2 жыл бұрын

not all of them, but some clever dude decided to pick the gayest ones and made a unit out of them, because gay love makes guys stab harder...

@yanlibra8886

2 жыл бұрын

You absolutely knows nothing about Sparta my dude

They stopped kicking people into the “don’t stop kicking people into the pit or Sparta will fall” pit

Good summary; thanks.

Great video

Isolation and over specialization in the end lends you vulnerable to you enemies due to lack of flexibility or ability to evolve. The Spartans are the prime example.

"These shields are Sparta's walls" -Spartan King Fun fact, they lost their walls when they lost their Army.

The Spartans became so wired in the military that they forgot to learn and upgrade to survive.

I heard Spartans were Jewish settlers which came from Egypt. Part of the Jews, under the leadership of Moses, moved towards the Promised Land, the other part, approximately in the 13 or 12th century BC, came on ships to Sparta. Indeed, the Spartans differed sharply from other Greeks in their customs and character. There were also Phoenician cities in Greece, for example, Thebes

So, that school that Spartans attend at age 7 you spoke of? It focused on art, music, and things like how to be a good citizen too. They also had to pass a fitness test and leadership test in the end to even be in the military. Spartans didn't really want to fight and mostly had a slave army with Spartans taken all the glory. That's from my reading

@tylerdurden3722

4 жыл бұрын

Going to war was like going on holiday for the Spartans. Being at home was very strict.

Why do I heard the same music being used on all these historical channels? Do you guys share media resources or something?

Toynbee considered the Spartans to consist of 'a civilization within a civilization'...their history, like their society, was vastly more complicated than depicted in these podcasts and indeed, in most history books. There is a lot more to them than meets the eye.

I wish this video was more complete. You didnt even mention the helots, or how spartan stagnation was a huge factor as well

Sparta became so irrelevant that it was allowed to just fizzle out by Macedon and then Rome...

leonidas with 300 spartan + 7000 hoplites from other cities. Of course sparta will get all the credit

@immortal6453

4 жыл бұрын

True watch this kzread.info/dash/bejne/moGFz7dpldO8opc.html

@kevinwanschers1787

4 жыл бұрын

I thought that Leonidas and his 300 Spartan soldiers fought the thousands of Persians off until the other 7000 came to reinforce the remaining soldiers of the 300?

@immortal6453

4 жыл бұрын

@@kevinwanschers1787 nope, it was not even leonidas idea to remain behind ...sparta even had a king with disabilities , truth be told most societies killed deformed babies at the time and the spartans were more oriented to culture and the development of arts rather than war ...unlike the athenians

@bloodydove5718

4 жыл бұрын

yep, i was thinking this video was filled with terrible pronunciations and myths that have already been corrected

@queonda7841

3 жыл бұрын

Thats what i be thinking lol

Spartan has fallen! Alexios: MALAKA Arthur: calm down boah Alexios: who are you calling boy? Kratos: you calling my boi?

Spartans respected their old people. Because they live long enough to survive many brutal trainings and battles.

And by the way, hoplites were still being used despite the new military innovations of the phalanx by the Macedonians. Alexander the Great used hoplites to protect the flanks of the bristling spears of the phalanx to prevent the enemy of breaking it up, especially in back of the formation.

@kingdrey

4 жыл бұрын

He used the Macedonian Phalanx which was similar to the Spartan Phalanx but not quite the same . They had longer spears and smaller shields

@jameskominos6728

4 жыл бұрын

@@kingdrey Yes, you are partly right. Smaller shields and spears up up 16 feet or more were used. The Spartan Phalanx was not used to primarily hold the enemy back and let the cavalry encircle the enemy like the Macedonians but to make contact with the enemy's hoplites in an orderly disciplined offensive attack.

@tsdobbi

Жыл бұрын

and it turned out to not be effective against Roman military organization which was far more adaptable to changing conditions on the battlefield than the unwieldy Phalanx.

@jameskominos6728

Жыл бұрын

@@tsdobbi The reason was the phalanx was used improperly against the Romans. They were used more as an offensive formation which it was not designed to do. A moving phalanx will break up as proved by the wars with Rome. It was designed primarily to hold the enemy back untill the cavalry got behind the enemy formation to create a hammer and anvil effect, then the phalanx would move forward if needed to annihilate the disorganized mess of the enemy formation.

Sparta fell apart because of the way its society was structured great video to

Me who has played AC Odyssey: Don’t ever use the word smart with me.

@warlock6814

3 жыл бұрын

True

@kingconniebonnie2178

2 жыл бұрын

I feel like the only person who sided with Athens in AOC.

@brandaccountname9833

2 жыл бұрын

@Ludimaul there are 0 good ac games

A good video but tell me...did you also base it on an article in MHQ from a few years back?

Commenters, get it together I’ve read 8 starting with “the reason they fell in short” or whatever and none of you agree

"THIS WAS SPARTAAAAAAA"

@afonsodeportugal

4 жыл бұрын

Was, son... was!

@tombombadilofficial

4 жыл бұрын

Gaming On *was

@averylongtimeago8816

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

Good job

It is 4 in the morning and for some reason im still awake watching this

There were less than 400 Spartiates at Leuctra according to a few sources I’ve used.

@ravenstrategist1325

4 жыл бұрын

@@GilleanFreire yes but only a few hundreds were spartiates.

10:13 ... Ummm That was an interesting pronunciation of the word epitome. lol Might want to try that one more time.

@dave29123

4 жыл бұрын

He had creative pronunciations for several words.

@myyoutube4906

4 жыл бұрын

@@dave29123 thermopalye had me fucked up lmao

@Justintjomusic

4 жыл бұрын

I don’t think the narrator’s a native American English speaker is he? His “T”s are too emphasized

All Spartans are great warriors boy!

I like your channel so i am seeing every commercial

The video really doesn't explain WHY Sparta fell. By far the main problem they faced was the steady decline of spartiates due to the aberrant familiar and economic dynamics of Spartan society, and you didn't even touch that topic. Had they kept even a steady population I find it hard to think that they would have fallen so easily, as they had indeed the only fully professional army of ancient Greece. Also, you mispronounced Epaminondas name... that guy was undoubtedly among the greatest of the ancient greeks.

There needs to be more on Sparta as a society in decline before the collapse of its empire. How and why did it happen? What were the social dynamics? Maybe a sequel?

Once Sparta was really on the forefront in the mainstream media. And I did like it, but your thirst also get sated at some point and you move on. Then a decade later you revisit and dig a little bit deeper than the surface level and you then realize that Sparta were a very obscure culture and very unique. Totally against the grain and what was considered normal at the time and were its complete own thing. I love founding cultures like that. I once read about a culture also doing ancient times and I think it was on the Iberian peninsula where they didn’t have a leader figure at all, but when shit hits the fan and it was necessary someone will rise up to the occasion and take the whelm temporarily. It’s cool to discover the obscene’s one.

Was thinking about starting a spartan or Athens campaign in imperator rome. This pops up. It must be a sign

1:43 "Foenchia"? LOL. Bro, I think you mean Phoenicia, pronounced "Fo-eh-nee-shee-ah" in English, although the Greek pronunciation, like a lot of English words for ancient terms, is with a hard "k" sound, "Fo-eh-nee-kee-yah". In either case the Phoenicians of the ancient Levant were the Semitic ancestors of the Punic Carthaginians to the West.

This video : *Exsist* Me who is a lvl 99 in ac oddessy and killed a crap ton of spartans and athenians : Id prettend I didnt see that

3:00 hum ? no ? these are legends

Nice video.