Sparta

We have reliable historians who have recorded this to be so, but not in quite the romantic way depicted in some accounts and movies. The 300 were the bodyguard of King Leonidas of Sparta. As the invading Persians had a strong amphibious capability which threatened the Greek cities, the cities all kept their main armies back for home defence, including Sparta. So Leonidas took this bodyguard, plus a couple of thousand serfs owned by them as light infantry, to Thermopylai to help the other city contingents hold the pass and force a sea battle in the adjacent strait, in an attempt to cripple the Persian naval forces, and so get rid of the amphibious threat. The sea battle at Artemesion was a failure, and so the sacrifice was in vain. A second sea battle at Salamis, off Athens, was successful, and with the amphibious threat gone, the cities sent their full armies to Plataia the following spring and defeated the Persian land forces and their Greek allies, ending the Persian invasion.

At the age of 30 they were allowed to live with their families, but continued to train until the age of 60 when they retired from military service. ... Because this did not happen until they were 18-20, they were more emotionally mature when they married and closer to the age of their husbands.

Spartans lived more simply, the word Spartan means simple. Sparta was more remote and could not trade with neighboring territories like Athens could. Trade in particular helped develop culture and a societies customs. With no trade, the Spartans were not able to thrive and prosper the way other cultures of Greece did.

In Sparta, the government was headed by two hereditary kings who were pulled from an upper class made up of lifetime military scholars. These men lived most of their lives in barracks, devoted to the arts of war.

There is no historical evidence to support the claim that Spartans killed over 300,000 people. The population of ancient Greece during the time of the Spartans was much smaller than that, and such a claim would be highly unlikely. Additionally, it is also not clear what is meant by "escaping" in this context since Spartan warriors were known for their bravery and commitment to their military duties.

Ants are strong because they are small...if an ant was the size of a human, it wouldn't be able to breathe (no lungs...insects breath via tubes that bring air directly into their bodies) and probably wouldn't be able to move. As an animal gets bigger, its mass increases faster than its strength. If you were the size of an ant, you might be even stronger. Of course, since ants have an exoskeleton, with their supports (bones) on the outside, their muscles attach differently than ours--our bones are on the inside.

They ate black broth

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beside broth, everything else you would find in a meal of Mediterranean people.

Beef,lamb,vegetables,potato,wheat products,bread etc..olive oil,cheese,milk,fruit etc

Sparta and Athens were natural allies who provided support to each other - Sparta leading the Dorian bloc of independent city-states, Athens the Ionian bloc, with both interested in maintaining peace.

So when a Persian expedition was sent to subdue Athens in 490 BCE after its interference in the Ionian Revolt against Persia, Athens naturally asked Sparta for support (however Athens had defeated the Persians at Marathon by the time the Spartans arrived). When Persia sent a full scale invasion in 480 BCE, the southern Greek city-states united to repel it under the leadership of Sparta with Athens providing the largest naval component.

They remained friends and allies until 460 BCE, when Athens sent an army to help the Spartans put down a revolt of its serf population. During this campaign they fell out and avoided each other. After the Persians agreed to peace the Athenians turned the Delian League into an empire of its own, became over-adventurous and clashed openly with the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta, resulting in the 27-year Peloponnesian War which Athens lost.

A Spartans' equipment, including chestplate, shield, greaves and other pieces, would have weighed around 100 pounds in total (for a fairly heavily equipped fighter). Most would have been somewhat less, between 50 and 80 pounds.

All of them are dead but the spartan 117. In Halo Reach you go back to a time when there were many Spartans but these Spartans are not as complex as the other ones.

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He commanded Confederate forces at several battles and was finally charged with slowing Sherman's invasion of Atlanta.

The elites are on your side because since they did a bad job of protecting one of the Prophets they made the Brutes their body guards and started killing all the Elites, this made the Elites mad because ever since the Covenant was founded the Elites had been the royal guard. And since they have a huge dislike for the Brutes they join up with the humans to wipe out the Covenant. Oh and also they found out that the Prophets want to activate the Halo rings which will wipe out all living life in the Galaxy and that the "Great Journey" is all a lie.

A dedicated Greek warrior, and in particular, their own citizen-warriors.

No, he was too dsitracted by other things in his life. Alexander was a coward in a sense.

the macedonians of course... No, not the Macedonians. Sparta had many cities aligned in a league to defeat Athens, and some had formerly been Athenian allies who turned their coats because Athens treated them too harshly. Also, Sparta later formed an alliance with an old enemy, Persia, which continued to meddle in Greek affairs after their defeat by Sparta and Athens many years earlier. Persia gave Sparta money for a fleet. nobody helped them Yes, somebody helped them. They could not have done it without help, especially from the Persians and the Syracusans. Read the history.

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Gorgo, queen of Sparta, was King Leonidas' wife.

Spartan girls and boys were at the ages of six and seven years old when first starting training.

Good question. This was so that they would bear strong children. The Spartans believed that strong women would make strong babies.

In addition to this, women were partly responsible for keeping the helots at bay whilst the men went to war. Since the helots heavily outnumbered Spartans, it was imperative for women to be able to keep the helots in fear.

Athens changed to increasing forms of democracy from 508 BCE, becoming a radical democracy 50 years later.

Sparta was always a limited democracy - a state which relied on its citizen body to form its army had to give them the option of directing the state, or they either wouldn't fight, or would fight to overturn the government.

Athens, Sparta was a war infested land. Bred only with the pure Sparta blood.

In ancient times, Sparta was the leading rival of Athens

Because they were strong and powerul

When the Spartans needed to expand they went and fought against other city-states. The Spartans had a great military, so this was very easy for them to do.

Some information about the spartan military....

Boys started training at the age of 7. They slept on reeds and worked all day. At the age of 18, they went into the regular military. It is also important to know that the boys were taken away from their families at the age of 7.

About the girls........

The girl Spartans were trained to javalin thow, and even wrestling. Unlike Athens, the girls did not stay home. They were very active, much like the boys.

Sparta had sparse living accommodations. Sparta had boys removed from the family and living in dormitories. Spartan men ate to be strong warriors. They slept nude and were allowed to gather thistle down to add to their beds made of reeds.

Athens had simple homes. Art was seen as a public activity. The rich had tables and chairs made of wicker, wood, metal or marble. Beds had cushions of wool, hay, leaves or feathers.