Spartan Organization, Tactics, and Fortifications - True Size of a Spartan Army (3D DOCUMENTARY) 

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Why the hell is the brit narrating from 3:00 onward? Where's our Invicta?!

do a video on the chorasmian kingdom north of bactria. i remember the greeks expecting wild scythians and getting an organzied kingdom that tried to diplomatically turn alexander back. or maybe investigate the settled scythians like the budini and their connection to the proto-slavic groups?

Loved your videos since day one when you did Adrianople back in 2016, along with Kings and Generals channel with the others... keep up the great work you guys & everyone over there. 👍✔ I'm looking forward to all that you have up next in the works... along with what comes up in many ideas next with Total War Pharaoh. 😎😉 Ideas: The rise of the Egyptian New Kingdom & pre history of the old & middle kingdoms leading up to it all. Wars between Egypt & Nubia over rivalries & gold mines there. The rise & fall of the Hittites & their military conflicts with Egypt & others. Troy! = rise and fall periods & history. The two Pre-classic Greek civilizations in rise & fall. Assyria = from beginning till end. Babylonia = from start to finish The Canaanites = from pre-history about them to Egypt, Moses + David & Goliath till Solomon & more. The sea peoples = everything we know & can guess about their origins The book of the dead, Ani's version & others about them & the afterlife. Construction of the great pyramids all throughout & history in uses. Tutankhamun = early to end of life & background info. Ramses the 2nd's whole life & battle of Kadesh till later life in death. Valley of the kings & their tombs. Egyptian hieroglyphs & meanings Early trade between Egypt, land of Punt and other civilizations throughout the bronze age. Beginning & end of the Bronze Age. Evolution & size of the Egyptian armies and other bronze age civilizations & militaries. Great cities of the bronze age from beginning to end, and especially those of Egypt throughout. The golden age of Egypt & developments from back then going on. History of the Nile river in Egypt & agriculture in rich farming land. The best & worst Pharaohs of ancient Egypt known. The priests of Egypt & religions Ptolemy Egypt from beginning till end in history background information Egyptian Scarab & meanings in luck & afterlife. Ancient Egyptian diplomacy & invasions by other peoples into the land of the Pharaohs... and how they dealt with it all. Hope you enjoyed for notes of this in writing down for possible future videos for 2024 onwards after Total War Pharaohs' release... and there's plenty more in ideas I have where that all came from = a decade's worth in the making in my thoughts. If you wish to contact me in future support for one another in further vids in basic ideas for your end, just reply and I will respond asap! I'm always around for your vids... so we can look out for one another in requests that will make even greater content for all who love classic history & more. P.S: Please don't make any Bronze age content in vids about it all till after looking up everything there is about Total War Pharaoh in game, units & more upon post release, for accuracy & more to make the vids even more out of them. 👌 DLCs too.

The funniest part in Spartans, was that they were mostly amusement park, for most of they history.

same would be amazing!

Or even more impressive would be the true size of Alexander’s army in contrast to the truly gigantic Achaemenid forces that were strategically outmaneuvered, on what, at least three (?) HUGE engagements

Alexander had about 50,000 men at the start of the campaign.. 47 thousand at the battle of gaugamela. 40k infantry and 7k calvary. This is minus camp followers and baggage train..

Macedonians. The inventors of the original Phalanx formation. It was really Phillip the 2nd. Alex’s daddy that built the army that Alex then inherited to go conquer the world w/. But a great time all the same

Philip reformed the Macedonian army to make it the most powerful force in the known world. Alexander inherited this most powerful force in the known world, and he made it even BETTER ;) Have you seen any of Kings & Generals’ videos of Alexander’s logistical innovations? :D

Same

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You know your stuff 👍

Beautiful. Thanks

Very useful piece of info.

In his War Oration, at the start of the Peloponesian War, Pericles called the Athenians to battle. He called the Athenians “men who sing and dance together”. This may have been a reference to the civic festivals of the Democracy, but also to the synchronization of the hoplite battle line. You can still see men dancing this way in a Greece…

All armies did that.

Yeah, but something I find interesting is how usually their command structures were vastly different in each level. For example, the Decanus, despite being equivalent to a sergeant or corporal was elected and wouldn't count as a Principales or NCO but rather as an ordinary Pedes or Enlisted role

Yes because it would be too hard to control or command the next actions if they increased the size. But Its fascinating how disciplined they were to be able to control such large sizes of militaries with animals and all their gears.

We have had a few people request this subject and are now in production on an episode for the US Army in WW2. It was initially supposed to cover a Rifle Battalion but the level of detail eventually forced us to scale back to just a company.

@@InvictaHistory Great RU-vid video and channel, but I frequently find the background music in your videos to be a little too loud. I would strongly suggest you lower it or even get rid of it for large portions of the video. I firmly believe that background music is distracting, annoying, and unnecessary (especially for educational or opinionated videos with lots of talking). I also believe that people want to hear you speak/get information and not hear generic background music that doesn't really add anything useful and that people have to mentally filter out. Plus it will be one less thing you will have to do when making videos. Thank you.

The Spartiates were the "nobility" of their social order, "knights on foot" . While the Roman army were soldiers, at least since the late Republic.

That’s modern Greek, the ancient sounded different.

Spartans for most of they history were amusement park. In Battle of Termopile, there were far more soldiers who actually did fighting on the back. Even in they famous last stand, they were less then half forces there.

It also has a shitload of innacuracies though

Or we could go straight to the source and read Xenophon who, if we read carefully, didn't really have anything nice to say about the Spartans

@louismanet3656 if you give the book I mentioned a chance you shall observe that the author goes out of his way to mention and analyse the few extant sources, and explain how flimsy most of them are, and how even with the guesswork involved the Spartans still emerge with a complicated fighting record. He goes into Xenophon and Plutarch in great detail, of course. And even though it might look bu this point that I have a cut of the sales or something, I also want to add that the author has a refreshing style and frankness due to not being a professional historian.

I really, really like this idea. We've had Invicta videos about Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones but no real-life mythology? It hurts.

I would be interested to hear what these details are to look into myself. My knowledge of ancient history is not as good as that of modern history.

@@matthewhain1483 The video mentions the adoption of the "mora" system as a new, additional tier in the structure of Lakedaimonian forces. However, scholars are to date very unsure how and why this transition from a lokhos-based to a mora-based system happened, and some have even argued that the "lokhos" even disappeared altogether, with later references to it being anachronisms (mistakes made by ancient authors). So the version presented in the video is but one highly speculative version of events - this could, perhaps, have been additionally pointed out when talking about the mora (though the video made clear several times that the recnstruction presented is speculative - which is very good 🙂 Another point: we have practically zero evidence for the details on how the periokoi served in the Lakedaimonian army. Assuming thery were integrated into the spartiate units at some point is a popular opinion amongst scholars, but is highly speculative. It could be argued that integrating less trained warriors into the spartiate phalanx would have negated the advantages of superior training. Also, there were several additional classes of people in Spartan society of whom we know next to nothing, but who probably supplied soldiers to the phalanx: the "nothoi" or "mothakes" (half-spartiate bastards of helot mothers) as well as the "hypomeiones" (the so-called "lessers", probably former spartiates who had lost their status). If we assume that these also provided manpower to the phalanx, then it is possible that it was these men who, in time, filled up the Lakedaimonian phalanx, rather than the perioikoi. Many question marks and unanswered mysteries :-) But the video is really, really great for an overview and is, I would argue, broadly historically correct in its presentation. I particularly appreciate the point was made multiple times that the sources are sketchy and the reconstruction speculative.

And yeah, in case there's any smart ass out there who doesn't know me at all, but someone wants to talk as if they know my great great grandfather and say I'm making all this up or that I sound like I watch too much tv, or u comedians out there who really want me to believe that the family heirloom isn't the wolf canine,but my great great grandmothers cousin giant,spartan dildo,yeah really great, it actually reminds me of a warning my folks gave me...I shouldn't talk much about our direct ancestral line to mighty sparta..jealousy can burn wild But,as the saying goes. The proof is in the pudding...or should I say this giant 9inch ,black hand me down

two men helping each other can accomplish more than one man helping himself

Rome rose by incorporating their Allies as citizens, and later rewarding military service with citizenship. Would you like to know more?

Not just in battle, either. To be a Spartan citizen, you had to be of 100% pure Spartan ancestry. IIRC, there was also a property requirement as well. And if you were stripped of your citizenship, neither you or your descendants could recover it.The result of this was that the number of Spartans declined more through people losing these qualifications than through war or natural disasters.

for me, a pentekonter is a ship of five rows of oar

frfr why need walls when your men are made of metal