Thursday, February 23, 2012

history of sparta and the war of 300

whats up guys here is an article I came across while researching read it for yourself here:
http://find.galegroup.com/gic/infomark.do?&source=gale&idigest=8de64512480f8c58026cd9fc2834cb47&prodId=GIC&userGroupName=hins30136&tabID=T006&docId=CJ92339192&type=retrieve&contentSet=IAC-Documents&version=1.0
but if your in a hurry just read thoorugh these main ideas I pulled out of te article.
  • Sparta is referred to as 'the evil empire'
  • in the war of 300 the spartans held off around 200,000 persians which made 2 days for the greeks to build up thier defences
  • the spartans were trained from when they were 7 years old in the 'boot camp from hell' for 20 years(many died in the way)
  • the spartans were one of the most brave and greatest warroirs in the world.
  • even though all 300 of the spartna troops died (including the leader) they shattered the persian morale.
  • without the spartans the modern athen empire probably wouldnt exist as the persians would have destroyed the greek empire.

4 comments:

  1. I disagree with you saying that the Spartan's were the bravest soldiers in thw world. I think that it was the Roman's because they werent forced into the military. They did it because they wanted too.

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  2. i disagree with one of your facts because it is incorrect Spartans were taken from there homes at seven years old, but they were trained constantly for longer than twenty years

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  3. I disagree with your points because were not evil. Also the Greeks could have easily defend the city own there own.

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