History Channel Rise And Fall Of The Spartans Episode 1

[Flickchaser]

truesemite- Excellent upload. Thanks much. After seeing this,the fame of the Spartan warrior was well deserved. The discipline of the Japanese military in WWII is probably the closest thing in modern times to ancient training. The books.."Samurai"-Saburo Sakai, "Japanese Destroyer Captain"-Tameichi Hara, and "No surrender My 30 Year War"-Hiroo Onoda...give a glimpse into their rigid training.

[shortist2003]

Typical academic horseshit!

Human beings do not kill babies. THE SPARTANS DID NOT KILL BABIES.

"The Greek myth that ancient Spartans threw their stunted and sickly newborns off a cliff was not corroborated by archaeological digs ... the bones studied to date came from the fifth and sixth centuries BC and come from 46 men, confirming the assertion from ancient sources that the Spartans threw prisoners, traitors or criminals into the pit."

[MuzeecX]

Why do the Spartans in this video look like Celts?

[chelseaFC1905fan]

This is sparta!

[RyanBrooksby]

A persian king once said to a Spartan before Leonidas, "If we defeat your army here, Sparta will burn!"

The spartan simply replied "If".

[TheJustice456]

How come Professor Jennifer Roberts attacks the Oracle as if to say, Well it's Bulldust! These Oracles have been identified as being true, to the point where comments like Bulldust hold no substance in the matter at all. If this is the case, Why even air the show?

[ruggedd]

spartan what is your profession, WAR WAR WAR!

[Shockerx54]

Amazing, Even though I'm in college for a Life Science Teacher. History looks good

[MegaNinjaman111]

i'm in 6th grade, and we are learning about anctient Greece in history class. we are pretending that we are in greek city states, and the sparta team made a chant against team athens CURSE YOU ATHENS CURSE YOU

[EatDrinkRock1]

Love me some Sparta

[frombaerum]

FUCK!!! have to go work now....

[ChristopherBPople]

Sparta was an Oligarchical Dictatorship with a Communist Economy and a lack of contact with foreign countries? Sparta IS 1984 :O

[outpost76]

Very cool! Alway's been very moved by the spartans. Good docu!

[Stefanoitch]

@outpost76 A mix of that and facists. They despised anyone who was weak and considered themselfs superior to barbaros

[outpost76]

@Stefanoitch History and present is full with facists. Don't blame them for thinking like that. Blame that what shaped them in thinking like that.

[NeutralNegotiator]

@outpost76 Amen to that

[NeutralNegotiator]

@Stefanoitch Yep they were fascists.But if you combare ancient sparta,the ultimate fascist nation,with i.e. modern somalia,the ultimate anarchist nation,I believe sparta was better even for the helots there.If you ask me,I would prefer the ultimate communist nation,but the whole species needs to advance a couple more milleniums to even try something like that.All communist countries that are or have been are mere dictatorships,meaning monarchies or oligarchies at best

[RyanBrooksby]

@NeutralNegotiator

Monarchies? the whole point of the USSR was to disolve the Monarchy.

It's more of a Socialist-Dictatorship.

[NeutralNegotiator]

@RyanBrooksby But it never pledged any liberty of decision to the people.All important things were desided by a handfull of men.And in stalins period,just by a single man.

[RyanBrooksby]

@NeutralNegotiator

Kinda the point of a Socialist Dictatorship.

Lenin was a Dictator. He ruled the Bolshevik party, which is essentially similar to Hitler's leadership.

[SovietWarhead]

spartan culture is like some kind of hardcore communism

[GPNYishai]

27:07 Why the hell is that guy so nervous?

[Epickirby64]

Im watching this to help me on a debate.

[tarsus85]

That Sparta was named after a woman! Took me by surprise! check it out 0:05:50-60

[ultimatetrex1999]

i thought this was halo

[3vinc3abl3]

''THIS IS SPARTA''- LEONIDAS

[womblewandering]

Spartan warriors. Real men, real fighters.

[NuclearDude101]

lol... Another name for this documentary could be: "North Korea B.C."

[unwashedpuma]

@NuclearDude101 stupid comment

[GPNYishai]

@NuclearDude101 Is that supposed to be some sort of a political joke.... It doesn't really have any relevance to any specific event or time so I guess it not really nthing...

[TheKILLA317]

fantastic documentary!!