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@rkitchen1967
@rkitchen1967 5 лет назад
The number of Spartiates (citizens) fell over time because it was possible to lose that status if one couldn't meet one's obligations, such as providing food for one's mess. On the other hand, it was not possible to become a Spartiate if you were not born to that status. Economic decline cost many their citizenship.
@thedarkmaster4747
@thedarkmaster4747 5 лет назад
True. They couldn't replenish their losses as a society.
@marcusanark2541
@marcusanark2541 4 года назад
It appears to have been true.
@LuizAlexPhoenix
@LuizAlexPhoenix 3 года назад
There were also many that couldn't produce "fit" children, so they died without leaving enough heirs. Each marriage would need at least 2 girls and 2 boys in a time when the women and children could die during childbirth, infancy or disease.
@williamdissing1041
@williamdissing1041 3 года назад
@CipiRipi00 add to that the fact they got married very late in life due to all the requirements before being allowed. 30 years of age. After a series of lost battles, how are they ever going to repopulate the society?
@bigbo1764
@bigbo1764 Год назад
Sparta declined as well as Athens, the only reason Athens is such a large city today is due to it being where English and American investors chose to open factories in Greece. Over the Middle Ages Greece in general was in decline and Sparta and Athens were comparable in population. Sure, lack of upward mobility didn’t help, but the ancient world lacked upward mobility in general, Rome and Carthage were “better” than the Greeks, but in general peasants and slaves were always peasants and slaves. Upward mobility as a right was really only conceived in the enlightenment, and countries like the U.S. would be the ones to pioneer upward mobility as a founding principle. It really isn’t as big of a deal as you make it out to be, and the lack of economic mobility generally prevented it from happening enough to detrimentally effect the city state.
@MrVlogman101
@MrVlogman101 6 лет назад
You know, i thought the roman political system was pretty odd and arcane. But the Spartans have a dual monarchy that has absolute power, except when it doesn't, a elected Senate that is chosen partially randomly that can pass whatever the hell they want with a public assembly and punish kings , except when an all male aristocracy decided no , a female aristocracy that is overwhelmingly rich but can't vote, and a population so terrified of its own slaves that it ritually committed atrocities against them. Compared to that Roman politics look simple and elegant.
@MrDoob-xo3sm
@MrDoob-xo3sm 6 лет назад
how on earth is your comment two days ago when the video was JUST uploaded?
@Zulhilmij
@Zulhilmij 6 лет назад
Patreon supporters get early access to videos
@vesteel
@vesteel 6 лет назад
Those are no Patreon supporters, They're time travellers
@YeetYeet-mi7if
@YeetYeet-mi7if 6 лет назад
Mr. Doob Magic~
@theChon100
@theChon100 6 лет назад
Patreon probably.
@maximaldinotrap
@maximaldinotrap 5 лет назад
Wait a minute, 300 body guards per king? That sounds awfully familiar.
@timothystamm3200
@timothystamm3200 5 лет назад
Yes that's who remained with Leonidas at Thermopylae.
@frnweclipse3130
@frnweclipse3130 5 лет назад
that’s why it wasn’t war, Leonidas was just “taking a walk”
@BubblewrapHighway
@BubblewrapHighway 5 лет назад
And by awful, you must mean Zack Snyder.
@maximaldinotrap
@maximaldinotrap 5 лет назад
@Titus Robertson I said it sounded awfully familiar, never said that it was a lot.
@gloriesnormaldude7513
@gloriesnormaldude7513 5 лет назад
@@maximaldinotrap and the bodyguards hade 3 slaves each
@nonyabeeznuss304
@nonyabeeznuss304 5 лет назад
There was a festival in Sparta where the male helots were forced to get puking drunk then dance and sing a song functionally boiled down as "I'm a useless idiot" while all the spartan citizens laughed at them. Humiliating and degrading the helots on every single physical and psychological level was an integral part of the Spartan lifestyle
@chocoman45
@chocoman45 5 лет назад
What the point of having servile inferiors when you don't rub the fact in their faces from time to time?
@nonyabeeznuss304
@nonyabeeznuss304 5 лет назад
@Janjão Jonata Well, they DID enslave an entire population of people. You don't accomplish that by being nice.
@nwahnerevar9398
@nwahnerevar9398 4 года назад
@Wyatt Earp just because the ancient greeks thought something was good, doesn't make it so
@UFOhunter4711
@UFOhunter4711 4 года назад
@Yul Hubbart didnt the Greeks write about the Persians? Maybe Xerxes was actually cool
@kles44
@kles44 4 года назад
Sparta only subjugated the tribes that deserved it. Remember, the helots were at first at war with the Spartansand would have treated them just As bad if the Spartans lost. If anything the stability provided by the Spartans allowed the helots stability and growth. placing modem morals on past events is not a good way to understand the past.
@roguevector1268
@roguevector1268 5 лет назад
5:35 did I just witness a drive-by mass bribery?
@frankzaffuto3670
@frankzaffuto3670 5 лет назад
I believe we did
@IRussian007
@IRussian007 5 лет назад
Just making it rain on them.
@atlasotm
@atlasotm 5 лет назад
Extremely accurate money shotgun
@italianstallion7272
@italianstallion7272 5 лет назад
no you didn't *throws gold bags at you*
@thedarkmaster4747
@thedarkmaster4747 5 лет назад
XD
@thegradualreport
@thegradualreport 6 лет назад
Can't show a pig being slaughtered, can show a poor defenceless box being tortured to death.... War, War never changes.
@ol-si4lx
@ol-si4lx 6 лет назад
genius
@sweatysocks8214
@sweatysocks8214 6 лет назад
NO LONGER IN USE War has changed.
@JimzAuto
@JimzAuto 5 лет назад
Actually, war has changed. With psychology being introduced and the study of human behavior, smart leaders know using their personnel to torture enemies ends up being counterproductive.
@reinatr4848
@reinatr4848 5 лет назад
He showed the latter in 'Ceasar In Gaul: REVOLT!' video.
@fluffynator6222
@fluffynator6222 3 года назад
@@JimzAuto Why that?
@samdoesvids1339
@samdoesvids1339 4 года назад
So...Ancient Sparta was a Constitutional Theocratic Direct Diarchy...I always just assumed Sparta was an Absolute Monarchy.
@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014
@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014 4 года назад
Me too, they are more complex than the general knowledge
@dexterjettster8875
@dexterjettster8875 4 года назад
I always assumed that the just went around killing people.
@TribuneAquila
@TribuneAquila 4 года назад
I think what mosr fascinating to me is the importance they put in defense, which at first thought we think of thier military, but often we forget the importance they put on diplomacy and i find thier rhetoric aspect as most fascinating.
@Csanad121
@Csanad121 4 года назад
@@davidperrier6149 They were, of the Doric branch. Back then there were different branches of greeks, the Athenians were Attic for example, whereas Crete and Sparta was Doric. The locals were acheans maybe, thus the Doric spartans came and conquered them, but they were just as greek. Only different dialect.
@doubtingthomas6146
@doubtingthomas6146 4 года назад
You’re fooling yourself. We’re living in a dictatorship. A self perpetuating autocracy, in which the working classes... oh, wait. Wrong video....
@scottjuhnke6825
@scottjuhnke6825 3 года назад
Spartans also suffered from a complete lack of upward mobility. A Spartiate could lose his status by not being able to meet his mess obligations. Once lost, the status they had was gone forever. This certainly was a contributing factor in the decline of Sparta.
@lorefox201
@lorefox201 3 года назад
I'd say the main one
@andrewbingham3304
@andrewbingham3304 2 года назад
@@lorefox201 I'd say the main factor of the decline of Sparta is their inheritance laws ensuring all their political power conglomerated into their women. Historically, women becoming the primary electorate has directly preceded the downfall of many empires.
@lorefox201
@lorefox201 2 года назад
@@andrewbingham3304 that was part of it for sure, but at some point the manpower issue became unsolvable
@michealwilliams472
@michealwilliams472 2 года назад
@@andrewbingham3304 The government was made up entirely of men comprised of this upper class of Spartiates (roughly 3% or less of the population by most estimates). If they wanted to reform, they could have done so easily. The didn't want reform, because it benefitted those at the top (both men and women) heavily. Making someone a Spartiate meant they had to be given land, which means land would have to be taken from those in power. The Gerousia mentioned in this video are the epitome of what went wrong with Sparta. Everyone "elected" to that position was part of the super ultra-wealthy (the upper class of the upper class; think the Jeff Bezos or Warren Buffets); the wealthy are not going to pass laws to willingly give up their wealth. Shit, they had a legendary military genius whose expertise defeated Athens in naval warfare, and they wouldn't make that guy a Spartiate. Sparta was undone by greedy, indolent rich people.
@andrewbingham3304
@andrewbingham3304 2 года назад
@@michealwilliams472 And who were the rich people? The women who profited from the deaths of the men. All men had to fight and it was unlikely to outlive your wife, or even get to have a wife to be honest. Inherited money was conglomerated into a select few women who had tremendous political power even if they didn't hold office.
@fakename3344
@fakename3344 6 лет назад
20:18 You accidentally recreated the floating dots optical illusion with the Gerousia squares.
@morpheus6749
@morpheus6749 6 лет назад
lol
@joshuanezat4394
@joshuanezat4394 5 лет назад
oh shit
@Pablo8927
@Pablo8927 5 лет назад
Came here to say that too.
@bearcatben4762
@bearcatben4762 5 лет назад
Accidentally
@arkoudiou
@arkoudiou 5 лет назад
That happens in every video they make...
@Strideo1
@Strideo1 6 лет назад
The constitution of the Spartans must have been pretty good. It does take a lot of endurance to hold those shields and spears.
@elzian4975
@elzian4975 6 лет назад
r/NotKenM
@drewfisher1619
@drewfisher1619 5 лет назад
Ooh... you got me there
@noamaviv1216
@noamaviv1216 5 лет назад
What do you think the average score was?
@annashuttleworth576
@annashuttleworth576 5 лет назад
qa
@CP4884
@CP4884 5 лет назад
The way you tell a story with naught but squares, optical illusions (possibly unintended, yet surely not unnoticed), and chat bubbles is incredibly captivating. Thank's for making these videos.
@Sawrattan
@Sawrattan 3 года назад
I love it, it's very simple and oddly soothing and not too distracting. Brilliant format.
@alkeenan7906
@alkeenan7906 2 года назад
Ugh just say nothing
@Robotomy101
@Robotomy101 Год назад
@@alkeenan7906 wtf
@MrBrukmann
@MrBrukmann 8 месяцев назад
​@@Robotomy101 One common thread with narcissists aside from other personality types I am aware of, is their visceral hatred for anyone else being praised. They are the ones who take competition too seriously in sports, fight dirty, etc. alkeenan7906 sees an elegant animation (simple, but effective) and equates it to overall crudity and categorical simplicity, something his "genius" and "superiority" could so easily outstrip, he has a right to be offended! (in his mind) Funny enough, the narcissist routinely fails to prove their imaginary abilities; if he tried to make even such a "crude" animation, he would quickly find it is more difficult than he thought, and devolve into an egotistical meltdown where he tells himself some excuse to not complete his "much more awesomer and worthy of praise than Historia Civilis" animation.
@MulToyVerse
@MulToyVerse 3 года назад
It's a coincidence that both Sparta and Rome were founded, in myth, by twins and both had a strong military.
@georgeptolemy7260
@georgeptolemy7260 3 года назад
Same goes for the Anglo Saxons!
@johndowland3051
@johndowland3051 3 года назад
@@samuelskogqvist5565 based
@salvatore5553
@salvatore5553 3 года назад
@@samuelskogqvist5565 Im not denying this, but wheres the evidence?
@coletonanthony9588
@coletonanthony9588 3 года назад
@@salvatore5553 well, women in Sparta had significantly more sway than most of the ancient world was willing to give. Philosophers who visited even commented on that fact. While in Rome yes the women held some sway, but it was basically the tug your husband and hope to get your way, evidence is the many divorces political leaders had in very short succession.
@thespeedcube2065
@thespeedcube2065 3 года назад
And first in the territory of another civilization…
@firejuggler31
@firejuggler31 5 лет назад
The Spartans rolled an 18 on Constitution but only a 3 on Agility.
@arentak2773
@arentak2773 5 лет назад
But in 5E, low agility is irrelevant if you're wearing heavy armor.
@sunset-inn
@sunset-inn 3 года назад
@@arentak2773 Stop using 5e.
@Tacticslion
@Tacticslion 3 года назад
@@sunset-inn As someone who legitimately prefers a number of other systems... ain't nothing wrong with using 5e. It's pretty good, actually. :D (I really like how they handle their conditions, for D&D.)
@sunset-inn
@sunset-inn 3 года назад
@@Tacticslion Anything is better than 4e.
@Tacticslion
@Tacticslion 3 года назад
@@sunset-inn Weeeeeeelllllll... ... ... ... I've actually played 4e, and have even loved it, but it's a VERY mixed bag. I continue to find things I admire in 4e as a system that I wish I could import to others that just... doesn't work in the other systems (and only sometimes works in its own). "Wow! This is SUCH a good idea! Too bad it sucks!" 4e is in many ways a work of brilliance both hampered by and enhanced by the fact that it's Dungeons & Dragons. It's a solid combat simulator with really great mechanical ideas, that serve much better in a computational system than in Pencil and Paper (with more situational bonuses and actions than anything 3.X ever dreamed of, even with all its myriad of bonuses) and it very unfortunately tried to hammer the very square D&D pegs into a very round 4e hole. And round is a great shape! ... but it's not really the shape of D&D. ... ... ... ... well, okay, guess, given the shape of the Great Wheel, it *is* actually a circle... but you all know what I mean! XD The problems with 4e D&D are actually rather analogous to 3.0 Psionics: absolute genius and fascinating construction and absolute dumpster fire *at the same time*. (3.5 Psionics, however, is a work of untarnished perfection and I will not hear anything against it! ... mostly because this is written text, not out loud. And also because nobody talks about the Complete Psionics book.) Comparatively, though, without question, 5e manages to grasp much of the feel and understanding of D&D that was (sometimes intentionally and sometimes incidentally and sometimes mistakenly) abandoned by 4e in its various decisions.
@gamergril5940
@gamergril5940 6 лет назад
Once an Ephor served his term he was barred from...Ephor serving again?
@n0denz
@n0denz 6 лет назад
Probably because the Spartans were aware that the Ephors could act like corrupt little mother-effers with too much power.
@robbielobster3212
@robbielobster3212 6 лет назад
*Mother Ephors
@AxelCross
@AxelCross 6 лет назад
BOOOOOOO puns are never okay this is bad you should feel bad
@JonDunham
@JonDunham 6 лет назад
Nice metephor.
@YourXavier
@YourXavier 6 лет назад
Bad puns are the best puns.
@skipperwarp9
@skipperwarp9 3 года назад
“ wealthy Spartan wives used to dominate their husbands” god I wish that were me
@Filippa1.1.
@Filippa1.1. 2 года назад
Lady dimitrescue??
@IssaGladiator
@IssaGladiator 2 года назад
Lmfaooooooo
@johnnottellingyou2402
@johnnottellingyou2402 2 года назад
And that's why it won't be
@skipperwarp9
@skipperwarp9 2 года назад
@@johnnottellingyou2402 I mean youre right but still :(
@ritam8767
@ritam8767 2 года назад
Yuck
@shkeni
@shkeni 5 лет назад
This is a good video, but is missing a super important point at the end: The cause for the decline of Spartan power was its defeat by Epaminondas of Thebes and his freeing of Messenia (the land of the Helots). He also founded Messene in Messenia and Megalopolis in Arcadia for the Helots, which became a powerful check to Sparta. Spartan power never recovered from this death blow to its slave economy and continued to wither away into the nothingness you describe. Epaminondas is mostly forgotten today, but he was one of the greatest men of antiquity. It was him and Pelopidas who put to bed the myth of Spartan invincibility and freed an entire people who had been enslaved for centuries. So in a way, the crippling blow did come from other Greeks, and the Helots did participate in it.
@cassius573
@cassius573 5 лет назад
Thanks for enriching the knowledge even further. Now it all makes sense.
@johnryanobejero1868
@johnryanobejero1868 5 лет назад
I like the fact that the number of likes on the comment has been (deliberately?) kept at 69 XD. I salute all the people who kept it that way
@cathaloconnor6577
@cathaloconnor6577 5 лет назад
@@johnryanobejero1868 maybe back to the future fans are keeping it at 88 atm lol.
@ursulabergen980
@ursulabergen980 5 лет назад
Please learn to understand historical events. The defeat by the Thebans was not the cause of the decline. The decline was the cause of the defeat. It is reported, I do not remember any more by whom, that the day previous to the battle a Spartan detachment of seven hoplites raped a local girl, can you imagine that? Spartans raped women? unheard of. It is also reported that many Spartan soldiers went to the battle drunk. Both things unheard of, for 500 years. By the way, because your soul can not apparently bear to know people (what about other animals?) in slavery. After a bloody war of 30 years the Spartans were victorious and made the Messenians slaves, called Heilots. Can you please tell me what would the Messenians have done with the Spartans if they, themselves, the Messenians, were victorious?? To paraphrase a German saying: Democracy has short legs. It does not bring you very far.
@phaedrussocrates7636
@phaedrussocrates7636 5 лет назад
I just wish Athena and others did better in wiping this despicable Spartan-nazi state much sooner!
@jamescarrico1233
@jamescarrico1233 5 лет назад
I think Cicero praised the Spartans for good reason. Two kings- two consuls Ephors- magistrates Gerousia-senate And both had plebiscites to pass laws. These systems seem very similar.
@elenatroiae
@elenatroiae 4 года назад
the men of rome did model themselves after greek ideals. the roman republic began in 509 BC, not long before greeces golden age in the 400s
@Aragon1500
@Aragon1500 4 года назад
Yep just constantly expanded citizenship
@e1123581321345589144
@e1123581321345589144 4 года назад
The roman system is much more complex and much more flexible.
@aesop1451
@aesop1451 3 года назад
The Ephors specifically seem like the Censors of the Roman Republic in that they could formally bring charges against the King. One of the duties of the Roman Censors was to be in charge of supervising public morality.
@Lucifer_Morningstar_F4LL1N1
@Lucifer_Morningstar_F4LL1N1 3 года назад
In Greek Gerousia(Γερουσία) literally means Senate
@MisterBones2910
@MisterBones2910 6 лет назад
"intemperance and luxury sounds like a good time" Mate, if _ancient Greeks_ were complaining about degenerate behaviour it was probably getting pretty crazy.
@ApollonianSoldier
@ApollonianSoldier 5 лет назад
Nowhere near to the degeneracy of today lmao
@petervey4966
@petervey4966 5 лет назад
HA!
@wadedeason3365
@wadedeason3365 5 лет назад
@@boyikr We're headed that way though it seems. Rinse, repeat.
@festethephule7553
@festethephule7553 5 лет назад
I have to wonder how much of that was sexism though. I mean, this is *ancient Greece* after all, and Aristotle himself was quite sexist.
@justincooper1884
@justincooper1884 5 лет назад
maybe, or maybe he was right. We'll never know the truth of the matter all we can do is project our own thoughts/feelings onto him.
@SameBasicRiff
@SameBasicRiff 4 года назад
This "Chronological Order" playlist you have, Historia, is one I come back too all the time. Such good info!! At first I was like "tiny squares and nothing else? bland! boring... lame, uh, wait, so then... and they did what? Awesome!" Haha this is great! Good stuff! Love the squares and how clear it all is!
@randomstuff463
@randomstuff463 5 месяцев назад
so easy to binge
@polandballhistorian8537
@polandballhistorian8537 5 лет назад
Man Aristotle hated everyone... I still love him, though.
@ramenbomberdeluxe4958
@ramenbomberdeluxe4958 4 года назад
Wyatt Earp And then he spewed a bunch of sexist nonsense about women, so no he didn’t have a reason for some of who he hated
@ramenbomberdeluxe4958
@ramenbomberdeluxe4958 4 года назад
Aquila Romana I find both of you to be sad examples of...well, I suppose putting a name to it is hard. I find this double standard to be funny, not only are you two most likely men yourselves, but it’s funny how we can call out historic racism and tyrants with no issue, but OH NO, GOD FORBID WE BRING UP SEXISM! SJW REEEEEEEE!!! Do you two see how silly you sound?
@ramenbomberdeluxe4958
@ramenbomberdeluxe4958 4 года назад
Aquila Romana It’s okay to call out the bad traits about otherwise good things as well. I think many of his teachings were great, but if you truly liked Aristotle, you wouldn’t be blind to his faults
@ramenbomberdeluxe4958
@ramenbomberdeluxe4958 4 года назад
@@caiawlodarski5339 why of course, your right. Still, it hurts to thik that even som eof our most influential figures would stillf all victim to these societal flaws,
@viracocha6093
@viracocha6093 4 года назад
@Aquila Romana you’re right about the difference in morality bit. Gender equality in of itself is not Marxist, however.
@michaeljones1491
@michaeljones1491 6 лет назад
Oh shit it's ya boi big red Roman rectangle coming in
@dilly7551
@dilly7551 6 лет назад
ROME HAS CONQUERED!
@jasonmartin4775
@jasonmartin4775 6 лет назад
*Rektangle
@MrDanayr16
@MrDanayr16 6 лет назад
+Jason Martin Legion Wreaktile
@thomasvrielink299
@thomasvrielink299 6 лет назад
20:53 WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH CICERO! CICERO IS SUPPOSED TO BE SQUARE!
@Dantick09
@Dantick09 6 лет назад
Thomas Vrielink this made me laugh xD
@marcustulliuscicero9512
@marcustulliuscicero9512 6 лет назад
Thomas Vrielink I like it.
@thomasvrielink299
@thomasvrielink299 6 лет назад
Marcus Tullius Cicero IMPOSTER!
@Noone-rc9wf
@Noone-rc9wf 6 лет назад
Thomas Vrielink AND XENOPHON??? AAHHHHHH BURN IT WITH FIREEEEEEEEEE THE WORLD WILL END *WHAT SHALL WE EVER DO?!!!!*
@user-ee3pd8ut6i
@user-ee3pd8ut6i 6 лет назад
The world falls because Cicero was not made a square. ;-;
@jakehawkinsmusic
@jakehawkinsmusic 5 лет назад
wait so Sparta wasnt just entirely one big boot camp. They had brains too. My life is a lie
@thedarkmaster4747
@thedarkmaster4747 5 лет назад
And poets and musicians... Of war. 😵⚔😵
@specj8849
@specj8849 4 года назад
:,
@jammehrmann1871
@jammehrmann1871 3 года назад
@@thedarkmaster4747 and Χιλών a philosopher
@Apple_Teck
@Apple_Teck 2 года назад
And water is wet.
@LanMandragon1720
@LanMandragon1720 Год назад
Boot camp includes various academic courses you of course realize?
@PhotogNT
@PhotogNT 5 лет назад
I seem to remember being told at school and I nay be wrong, that Spartan mothers and wives would tell husbands and sons when going off to war to "return with their shield or on it".
@KaladinVegapunk
@KaladinVegapunk 5 лет назад
haha they could be so detached about their sons/husbands either kicking ass or dying because at least they had great compensation
@illarionbykov7401
@illarionbykov7401 5 лет назад
Yep. Women sent their sons off to die in wars of conquest to enrich these mothers....the "gentle sex" LOL. Too many men are waking up to the modern version of this scam. The West under feminism, like Sparta under the Heiresses are ripe for the pickings by stronger foreign powers who don't bow and scrape before their spoiled rich women..
@illarionbykov7401
@illarionbykov7401 5 лет назад
@Yul Hubbart the military and the suffragettes collaborated on the "white feather" campaign. The military because they wanted more cannon fodder for their imperial war, and the suffragettes because they thought men should earn their right to vote through military service, and argued women could earn the right to vote through equivalent "war work"--a promise suffragettes renegged on as soon as men extended voting rights to women. It's the usual story, feminists saying one thing ("equality") and doing the opposite (female privilege)
@ioannisgordios12
@ioannisgordios12 4 года назад
Mark Cullenane it is reality that with the shield or dead on it . That was the Spartan law as they did not leave dead behind .
@wppb50
@wppb50 4 года назад
@@ioannisgordios12 It was also Spartan law that, if you retreated from battle, you would have to live your life as a "trembler." Get half your beard shaved, cloak torn, and be out from the protection of the law, so any Spartan could assault you without penalty if they felt like it. (If you fought back, of course, that would make you a criminal as well as a trembler.) So the real options were "with your shield, or on it, or come back to a life of nothing but shame to yourself and your family."
@sarasamaletdin4574
@sarasamaletdin4574 6 лет назад
Congrats on your 50th video. Here is hoping next 50 will come out soon.
@rmd251
@rmd251 6 лет назад
At once.
@delta4093
@delta4093 6 лет назад
+klovervibe I'd watch all of them in one pop if that happened! If only-
@soumajitsen1395
@soumajitsen1395 2 года назад
It hasn't
@macdermesser
@macdermesser 5 лет назад
Seems ancient Sparta was kind of a national security state.
@thedarkmaster4747
@thedarkmaster4747 5 лет назад
YES! :D
@shadowyfigure4975
@shadowyfigure4975 4 года назад
It was more than that, they tried to be fair to Spartans as well.
@TebecyBrad
@TebecyBrad 3 года назад
Sounds familiar
@benji2886
@benji2886 3 года назад
This is extreme similar to our army
@mk6315
@mk6315 3 года назад
Service guarantees citizenship! Enlist today!
@PoseidonXIII
@PoseidonXIII 5 лет назад
Love how detailed this is! I really appreciate you making this for us.
@mariojm1709
@mariojm1709 5 лет назад
Brilliant commentary. Xenophon would have took the route by sea, not land, to get to Sparta from Athens. Just a minor point.
@TheGerogero
@TheGerogero 2 года назад
How about the Ephors on the way to the oracles? I was wondering whether the animation was accurate.
@bertkarlsson1605
@bertkarlsson1605 6 лет назад
Long have we waited
@tightlikeweed9735
@tightlikeweed9735 6 лет назад
hear hear!
@theturtle773
@theturtle773 6 лет назад
And we aren't Jebaited
@goranperssonfanaccount1956
@goranperssonfanaccount1956 6 лет назад
Bert Karlsson skara för alltid
@stoopid6036
@stoopid6036 6 лет назад
oh for fucks sake more bots
@danielvictor3262
@danielvictor3262 6 лет назад
Not a time that I have doubted the oracle
@finisterre2415
@finisterre2415 6 лет назад
The spartans were some crazy mother Ephor's.
@miguel111093
@miguel111093 6 лет назад
I was looking for this haha
@justsomeguy3565
@justsomeguy3565 5 лет назад
Hssss hsssss
@wesleysnyder349
@wesleysnyder349 5 лет назад
Are you proud of yourself? Because you should be this is punny as hell and I love it
@randybobandy9243
@randybobandy9243 5 лет назад
Bahahaha 😂🤣😂😆
@whygodwhy9252
@whygodwhy9252 5 лет назад
Perfect joke
@martinbeckdorf4565
@martinbeckdorf4565 Год назад
I studied Roman Law back in Law School. Your videos on laws and constitution are extremely interesting, and the ones covering smalled polities like Sparta give an interesting glimpse on how smaller and younger societies experimented, and how culture played a role in it. (like Helot-Homoioi relationships and the Heraclean lines). I wonder how much can be known about semitic constitutions, like in Tyre, Carthage or the Kingdom of Israel, which I recall made institutions in the hellenic style in later years.
@martinbeckdorf4565
@martinbeckdorf4565 Год назад
Oh, and the mention of Xenophon makes me think a video of the Anabasis would be incredible.
@innosanto
@innosanto 10 месяцев назад
Sparta was not young society.
@MrLee-cy1pw
@MrLee-cy1pw 6 месяцев назад
​@@innosantothe further back in time you go, the younger our species and societies were.
@brycevo
@brycevo 4 года назад
This is a really good in depth look at Spartan culture and law
@ShadowGricken
@ShadowGricken 6 лет назад
Just yesterday I was thinking "you know its been awhile since he's uploaded" Historia Civilis once again proves he's fucking psychic.
@monopolymoney2703
@monopolymoney2703 6 лет назад
Gricken same lol
@finnmunchhoff9233
@finnmunchhoff9233 6 лет назад
That roman square at the end was awesome though ;)
@danmichaelabad1338
@danmichaelabad1338 6 лет назад
War incoming
@thefisherking78
@thefisherking78 3 года назад
Man, this was such an interesting rundown! I love your work!
@John_Conner222
@John_Conner222 5 лет назад
So i'm assuming the Ephors messed around with the heiresses alot. I guess young men and rich cougars go hand in hand. So this is the origin of the term "Mother Ephors"?
@30K_ACTUAL
@30K_ACTUAL 5 лет назад
Romullus Best comment so far
@thedarkmaster4747
@thedarkmaster4747 5 лет назад
That didn't matter to much in ancient sparta. Think about it. Wemen out numbered men by alot, and every guy was a demi hercules.
@playsauce
@playsauce 4 года назад
Teens > cougars.
@euleer.-.9385
@euleer.-.9385 4 года назад
@Dragon Dimosthenis Indeed, 'cause it was legal lmao
@porsche911sbs
@porsche911sbs 4 года назад
I thought he said the ephors were older, at least 45 years old
@brettwilson2589
@brettwilson2589 5 лет назад
Spartan King: "What do you mean I'm being taken to trial?" Messenger: "The Ephors voted 3/2 against you" Spartan King: Those MOTHER EPHORS!"
@pikamonketchumlol1237
@pikamonketchumlol1237 3 года назад
lmfao
@pikamonketchumlol1237
@pikamonketchumlol1237 3 года назад
unlucky for them the future is a civilization of memes, cuss words, drunk dudes and cool Assassins Creed recreations of Greece
@blackfootedferret
@blackfootedferret 3 года назад
I lost it every time he said effors
@Tacticslion
@Tacticslion 3 года назад
I have to say randomly coming across this today, we're playing a solo game situated in Sparta. The PCs have made the same joke more than once. (And the Ephors, despite their name, aren't even the actual villains or antagonists.)
@curtisshaw1370
@curtisshaw1370 2 года назад
Since I don't have a sense of humor: The Ancient Greek word was ἔφοροι. Ancient Greek also had a pitch accent instead of a stress accent. Phi was pronounced as an aspirated p, not as an fricative /f/. It had a trill r. So a close approximation of the correct pronunciation for English speakers would be "Eh? Poe Roy" while rolling the r. If you want to use the English plural, it would be "Eh? Pours."
@divaybishnoi2773
@divaybishnoi2773 6 лет назад
A 23 minute long video from historia civillis? Where is my pizza?!!
@Ptaku93
@Ptaku93 6 лет назад
I already ate mine :3
@jon-umber
@jon-umber 6 лет назад
Literally eating pizza as I watch this.
@kaspervendler1726
@kaspervendler1726 6 лет назад
I also had to get some snacks
@bigmoney3910
@bigmoney3910 6 лет назад
Divay Pratap I had a burger..
@augustinedaudu9203
@augustinedaudu9203 6 лет назад
Divay Pratap I got ice cream
@deblunn
@deblunn 4 года назад
I have watched all the videos you have made.I love your voice and style.Please make more.Thanks heaps, dude!
@alexanderfroebelzehl3825
@alexanderfroebelzehl3825 3 года назад
This channel is the best thing I have found on RU-vid so far. Thank you!
@VampireSquirrel
@VampireSquirrel 6 лет назад
if a king got thrown out office by ephers was it called getting ephed?
@saintmiller3584
@saintmiller3584 5 лет назад
Well... That's F.or U.nlawful C.arnal K.nowledge now isn't it?
@gon4455
@gon4455 5 лет назад
😁
@ssimon64
@ssimon64 5 лет назад
Ephed right in the A
@vertik7
@vertik7 5 лет назад
I guess it's called impeachment.
@david2869
@david2869 5 лет назад
@@vertik7I think you mean "impephment"
@all7ofthem716
@all7ofthem716 6 лет назад
oh shit boi best channel time
@InternetStranger476
@InternetStranger476 6 лет назад
its lit
@alexandert6966
@alexandert6966 6 лет назад
hahaha
@SECONDQUEST
@SECONDQUEST 6 лет назад
WeTube knock it off
@promnightdumpsterbaby9553
@promnightdumpsterbaby9553 5 лет назад
This and epic history are the 2 best historical channels on you tube. Great work.
@GeneralKenobiSIYE
@GeneralKenobiSIYE 4 года назад
"That hurts, man."- Non Spartan Greeks. "Dude.... uncool."- At least once in every "Oversimplified" video.
@the.pandamonium
@the.pandamonium 6 лет назад
Historia Civilis upload makes my day better
@cameronsipka3352
@cameronsipka3352 6 лет назад
sverebebe +
@palatasikuntheyoutubecomme2046
@palatasikuntheyoutubecomme2046 3 года назад
Mee toooooo! Hugy wuggy fwend wets aww be happy woo watching vee histowia civiwiss! Nah - That was just weird
@BBD1
@BBD1 6 лет назад
Please man, don't stop making videos I just love how you explain history, geography, the human nature and emotions. It makes us travel to that place and look how people tough at that time Brilliant videos dude really great work!
@christopherthrawn7541
@christopherthrawn7541 4 года назад
You have have done a excellent job on history here. I'm impressed with your details and breakdown of facts. I lived in Crete and Greece as a kid. Bravo work here.
@peawackab6198
@peawackab6198 5 лет назад
Thanks, I found that nice, well presented, short and intuitive.
@euboean3079
@euboean3079 6 лет назад
Nice video BUT you did not talk at all about the Perioikoi who were not slaves like the helots but were not citizens of Sparta. Instead they were the manufacturing and trading class of Laconia, who lived the most normal lives, and in later years comprised the majority of the Spartan army with the citizens being the elite.
@totocaca7035
@totocaca7035 6 лет назад
If they are not spartans, then why mention them? ;)
@euboean3079
@euboean3079 6 лет назад
Neither were the Helots :P and most of the Perioikoi were Laconians unlike the Helots who mainly hailed from Messenia.
@TheAtmosfear7
@TheAtmosfear7 6 лет назад
The word "Spartan"itself is misleading. If you're referencing the ruling citizen warrior class that formed part of the Spartan army (the homoioi), then what you mean is Spartiates, not Spartans. Spartans would be anyone living in the city of Sparta. The warriors, true citizens that take part in the agoge training and the common meals are called Spartiates.
@jasondoe2596
@jasondoe2596 5 лет назад
TheAtmosfear7, that's a pretty silly distinction, because it only exists in the English language. I can assure you that in Greek "Spartiates" *means* Spartans. I suspect that if they wanted to refer to the entire non-slave population ("homoioi" aka _peers_ or not) they would use the term Lacedaemonians.
@deusvult6900
@deusvult6900 6 лет назад
22:07 "When the Romans started getting their hands dirty in grease"
@erravi
@erravi 6 лет назад
I wish he had said "getting their hands greasy" so badly lol
@waynesudoski871
@waynesudoski871 6 лет назад
I didnt get why u liked this at 1st haha. Just as i was about to close i realised how funnny that was! 😂 1 minute im reading hard complex things the next i cant wrap my mind around seasonal time change ☺🙄✌
@AgglomeratiProduzioni
@AgglomeratiProduzioni 6 лет назад
"How Italians were born"
@ryanlutz6699
@ryanlutz6699 5 лет назад
Very interesting video. One of your best. Everything is very well explained.
@LasPhoenix777
@LasPhoenix777 5 лет назад
How am I just now finding this channel?? Great content.
@slyrooster1241
@slyrooster1241 5 лет назад
My dude ive been here for at least a year, all the content is amazing welcome to the club 🤘
@alaskaoalaska
@alaskaoalaska 6 лет назад
You forgot to mention the Battle of Leuctra of 371 and Epaminondas' freeing of the Helots, the creation of forts in the lands of the Helots, the creation of Megalopolis in Arcadia. All of those are central to Spartan decline, their decline isn't a mystery like you portray it. Macedon replaced Thebes as a threat, than the Aetolian League and the Achaean League were Roman proxies that kept Sparta busy. Sources include Plutarch (who used Xenophon as a source) and Polybius who was from that area and very pro-Achaean League. Agis IV and Cleomenes III attempted reform so you ended on an historically incorrect note. Otherwise your videos is clear and well-organized, if not a bit lacking in visual stimulation.
@Bambabah
@Bambabah 6 лет назад
Very underrated comment.
@RD-eg1df
@RD-eg1df 6 лет назад
Lacking in visual stimulation?? There's squares and rectangles in DIFFERENT COLORS all over the place!
@danidejaneiro8378
@danidejaneiro8378 5 лет назад
To be honest, the graphics is what I love most about it.
@64standardtrickyness
@64standardtrickyness 5 лет назад
There's also before the Battle of Leuctra when their pure blood spartans dropped down toonly 1000 men. It shows the weakness of a purely hereditary warrior state's ability to recoup after huge losses unlike the Romans after Cannea It seems however, from events such as Platea that arming massive number of their Helot's was possible
@reinatr4848
@reinatr4848 5 лет назад
Lacking visual stimulation? Welcome to the land of squares and rectangles!!
@2ndGenBen
@2ndGenBen 6 лет назад
You need to do a video on A. Sulla’s dictatorship Or B. Dissecting the statement “Caesar marched on Rome”
@811chelseafc
@811chelseafc 5 лет назад
Ben Sama well. That’s one down.
@theflyingfool
@theflyingfool 5 лет назад
Apart from the very interesting content that I thoroughly enjoyed, I really liked the optical illusions!
@rubenherrera3852
@rubenherrera3852 5 лет назад
I liked the envelope being push on your graphic!!!! Enjoyed your effort!
@pugfugly1989
@pugfugly1989 6 лет назад
When you hear "they mobilized their entire male population for the army", you start to understand why the Spartans are a lost civilization. They got wiped the fuck out.
@mortarpestle.4267
@mortarpestle.4267 6 лет назад
I dunno, complete mobilization sounds like a very war-efficient strategy.
@utvara1
@utvara1 6 лет назад
Well the whole point of mobilizing only men is to keep the reproduction levels stable. In theory this means that even after 90% of men are dead, since only men died the breeders can still replace those fallen men. Sparta also had welfare system so single mothers did not need to worry too much. Something is obviously faulty with this system. Obviously having women as breeders does not work out as good. Not accepting foreigners as Spartans makes sense since they are basically nazis who think of themselves as ubermensch and don't accept immigrants. In their worldview accepting a nonspartan as spartan is worst than losing a war.
@jmiquelmb
@jmiquelmb 6 лет назад
Because it was not really complete. Most of the population in the Peloponese were Helots who did not receive formal military training. They were so conservative that they brough themselves into irrelevance
@hazzmati
@hazzmati 6 лет назад
+utvara1 oh boy the nazi argument again... how lazy and ignorant
@utvara1
@utvara1 6 лет назад
Why? Sparta is an ideal nazi state, it is fully nationalist (even less accepting to non-natives than nazis) and fully socialist, both states were militarist, had slave labor and saw themselves as master race, they both relied on palingenesis or a myth, one of aryan descent other of heracles descent, both were police states and both were totalitarian and even controlled sex lives of their citizens, the only lazy and ignorant and let me add stupid for my higher criteria here is you.
@martinthomsen2712
@martinthomsen2712 6 лет назад
"Nobody has to work for a living" a doctrine the Greek has taken to heart ever since :-D
@georgeptolemy7260
@georgeptolemy7260 5 лет назад
Top tier comment
@atsiapla
@atsiapla 5 лет назад
fuck off, idiot :)
@WOGBOY
@WOGBOY 5 лет назад
greeks are actually very hard workers they just dodge paying taxes as hard as possible
@georgeptolemy7260
@georgeptolemy7260 5 лет назад
@@WOGBOY topper tier comment
@badspy100
@badspy100 5 лет назад
fuck you. i work for 30 years and i have nothing. all greeks are working hard and the fucking banks and the EU take our blood for the other countries to live at our expence
@mojeo522
@mojeo522 5 лет назад
In the Spartan diarchy one of the kings usually controled foreign laws and relations and the other usually controled the interior. This system worked so well that today, most countries use this system by separating goverment from State.
@HoopTY303
@HoopTY303 Год назад
Sacrificing a piggy was the Spartan equivalent for asking google.
@ethan9567
@ethan9567 6 лет назад
Today is a great day now
@thehaoguy
@thehaoguy 6 лет назад
Omg, another half an hour video, this is pure pleasure!!!!
@aaronaaron8604
@aaronaaron8604 5 лет назад
Amazing video!!!!! Best thing I watched in a while!
@Jizzlewobbwtfcus
@Jizzlewobbwtfcus 5 лет назад
This was fascinating. ty for the education mate :D
@youngkim5909
@youngkim5909 6 лет назад
Damn it I thought you meant constitution as in health! I came here to get abs like Leonidas in 300!
@halithegreat3240
@halithegreat3240 6 лет назад
Did you stay for Ephors and Gerousia?
@pettermct
@pettermct 5 лет назад
Now he as a big belly
@lightbombs
@lightbombs 5 лет назад
GYM
@reinatr4848
@reinatr4848 5 лет назад
...
@jedisentinel4879
@jedisentinel4879 5 лет назад
Lol
@zakeg2620
@zakeg2620 6 лет назад
I love this type of documentary. Usually american history docs are over dramatic and simplified. This is detailed and informative. Keep it up!
@tommcnicol8916
@tommcnicol8916 5 лет назад
this is soo helpful
@AVP123
@AVP123 3 года назад
I do love these videos and the humour which goes with them.
@MATTHEW12944
@MATTHEW12944 6 лет назад
Finally. Original information about Sparta. The 300 has been thrashed. Well done!
@Turgon92
@Turgon92 6 лет назад
spartan warriors were still elite. but for a very,very short amount of time
@bakters
@bakters 6 лет назад
+Turgon92 - Spartans were the best infantry out there for a very long time. 3 to 5 centuries, depending how you count. As far as I know, they were considered to be elite infantry for as long as they existed. Just the numbers dwindled, but the quality supposedly remained.
@vlandianbutter9960
@vlandianbutter9960 6 лет назад
Athens used to have an elite homosexual legion called the Sacred Band, some people said it's the best greek unit in their time.
@nickstrapvideos5503
@nickstrapvideos5503 6 лет назад
Southern White-Faced Owl Thebans not Athenians.
@nickstrapvideos5503
@nickstrapvideos5503 6 лет назад
BlackDeathViral03 It's because of strategy, not because they were better soldiers. Example: Battle of Charrae, roman's with 30.000 legionnaires and in total 50.000 lost against 10.000 parthians. It's all about strategy bud.
@Defaultname0000
@Defaultname0000 6 лет назад
Awesome vid. Enjoying your Greek stuff. Would like to see you continue you're Ceaser videos however; get into the civil war.
@Irmarinen
@Irmarinen 6 лет назад
Jetsom Yass, more ceasar stuff!
@gmat5046
@gmat5046 3 года назад
I love how intentionally cute he made the pig, then panned away as he said it was sacraficed edit. Next watch, lmao at the HUGE Roman infantry at the end
@jamesguy2265
@jamesguy2265 3 года назад
Bravo my good sir. Another work of art
@nikofloros
@nikofloros 6 лет назад
Thank you for including the correct Greek pronunciation of Delphi! It made me so happy!
@simslaurs
@simslaurs 5 лет назад
I giggled at the big Roman square coming in at the end. Great mediating @Historia Civilis
@iycephoenixx4249
@iycephoenixx4249 5 лет назад
I smiled greatly inside 😋
@thiagozequim
@thiagozequim 3 года назад
love this channel
@mattc9998
@mattc9998 5 лет назад
Many of your videos mention "legislation", but what I really want to know is how on earth legislation was actually spread populations and enforced, especially in rural areas. For example. in one of your videos you explain how Julius Caesar reformed the calendar, as well as adding in a very large chunk of days to compensate and rectify it. How did all of the farmers and cities across Rome actually hear about this and implement it? And with stuff like tax collection, surely with the remoteness of people and the distance to the capital, it would have taken months to effectively collect all of the tax? You could go even further: You often see time-lapses of the big red blob that is Rome spread across huge swathes of landmasses, and this goes for any nation or empire that conquered and/or annexed places. I get that invading armies can set up in major cities and towns, but how would a small village of natives in the middle of say Gaul know that they were now under Roman rule, and what difference did it actually make to them? How is it that Roman culture and religion spread so quickly to these areas too? Too many questions XD Sorry! I do really love your videos though
@SeedlessProductions
@SeedlessProductions 5 лет назад
Seems to me it would involve a lot of people riding horses and shouting.
@weltarchiv4
@weltarchiv4 5 лет назад
The quick Romanization of Western Europe happend through depopulation and mass enslavement followed by deportation to Italy of all the cities in Gaul and Hispania. The very rural areas were never Romanized. They only became Latin-speaking in the early middle ages when people from the cities moved into the countryside and the Germanic (but linguistically latinized) conquerors started to set up the feudal system.
@samiamrg7
@samiamrg7 5 лет назад
That’s why there was plenty of room for corruption in tax collecting for most of human history, and why the bigger an empire was, the more corrupt it tended to be. Some empires got around this by having more decentralized power structures like the Mongol Empire or many of the iterations of the Persian Empire. While this can make an empire durable, it also tends to hurt cohesiveness and can lead to civil war or separatism.
@iycephoenixx4249
@iycephoenixx4249 5 лет назад
"Cities across Roman territory/the republic/the empire"
@samiamrg7
@samiamrg7 5 лет назад
Matthew Cocks Additionally, this challenge in tax collection and law enforcement is why large empires like the Romans, Persians, and Chinese are notable. Most kingdoms throughout history were pretty small since it is hard to administer large areas and lots of people without everything falling apart as happened to, for example, Alexander the Great’s empire.
@Datharass
@Datharass 6 лет назад
This was interesting thank you.
@Captiiva
@Captiiva 6 лет назад
It almost sounds like they chose to let themselves die out. They had to be more then aware of the state of their society and government, but still chose to carry on till the end. Sounds like the Spartan thing to do to me.
@sonaruo
@sonaruo 5 лет назад
nope they lost the land and the laws were not able to be applied anymore and 1 day after the defeat and the loss of the territory the spartan civilization ended the men stoped doing military excises but spent all day long getting drunk they did not try to reform the society to accommodate the new reality they just gave up
@tfw2997
@tfw2997 5 лет назад
I imagined that they'd rather die than change themselves into something they were clearly not
@MrRoz121
@MrRoz121 5 лет назад
Messenger Charles would you like them to stand up and get angry again?
@MrRoz121
@MrRoz121 5 лет назад
Messenger Charles I’m not disagreeing. But sadly I believe it’s far to late. The majority would gladly have themselves erased and replaced.
@johnmontoya8160
@johnmontoya8160 5 лет назад
So despite the fact that many spartan women were rich as a result of the spartsn system and it failed, what that say about women?
@RMK--dz6fb
@RMK--dz6fb 3 года назад
I LOVE your videos man
@marin4311
@marin4311 5 лет назад
Very detailed and informative video. Suscribed.
@MidnightCalyx
@MidnightCalyx 6 лет назад
Your videos are so educational keep it up it helps a lot
@MrDoob-xo3sm
@MrDoob-xo3sm 6 лет назад
last time i was early sparta was still keeping out the persians
@jmiquelmb
@jmiquelmb 6 лет назад
Ironically, they sided with the Persians several times against other Greek cities. They also chickened in Marathon and Athens had to defeat Persia all alone.
@triglos5413
@triglos5413 6 лет назад
they didnt chickened the marathon they arrived some time after the battle because their armor was super heavy consider them a tiger corp but with 1/10 of its speed :P
@RD-mc5gl
@RD-mc5gl 6 лет назад
siegward of catarina the Spartans were very superstitious and they were advised to march in aid of Athens on the next full moon by the oracles.
@hamods6459
@hamods6459 6 лет назад
triglos that sounds like an excuse Walder Frey would tell when he didn't arrive in time for the battle of the trident
@RD-mc5gl
@RD-mc5gl 6 лет назад
Hamods LOL
@rubenjames7345
@rubenjames7345 Год назад
I really love this stuff!
@xXxSNIP3RGUYxXx
@xXxSNIP3RGUYxXx Год назад
Awesome video!
@noahhunter382
@noahhunter382 6 лет назад
Would you ever consider doing a video on the Parthian empire, or some other maybe less well covered or popular ancient civilization. You do a great job on all of your videos and would love to see you explain maybe other ancient empires.
@Pro_Butcher_Amateur_Human
@Pro_Butcher_Amateur_Human 6 лет назад
I studied the Spartan's history in college, and bored my friend's and family for 2 years by constantly telling them interesting (to me anyway, they're not big on history) things I'd just learned. I haven't done it for a while because I don't think about the Spartans as often anymore. This has made me think about all the things I loved about learning Sparta's history. My family are getting a history lecture over dinner tonight.
@Viktor4War
@Viktor4War 2 года назад
Amazing job!
@jhalkiasdura
@jhalkiasdura 4 года назад
Great video!
@Bram06
@Bram06 6 лет назад
Roman Constitution next? (Even though it was unwritten)
@Ptaku93
@Ptaku93 6 лет назад
all the videos about Roman political institutions are about Roman constitution
@DanishCamp
@DanishCamp 6 лет назад
Mos Maiorum?
@2ndGenBen
@2ndGenBen 6 лет назад
Some of it was written it was called The Twelve Tables
@tummywubs5071
@tummywubs5071 6 лет назад
Holy crap good video!
@therabbithole545
@therabbithole545 3 года назад
Very well done! Cheers!!
@apes352
@apes352 5 лет назад
Love the unintentional optical illusion at 17:24 with black dots keep dissepering between the edges of the squares!
@bvthebalkananarchistmapper5642
If that wasn't enough, back during that time, there were 5 different languages in the Hellenic family: Attic, Doric, Ionic, Micaenean and Eolic. Sparta spoke Doric. However, Athens spread its influence, and Attic became more widespread. Eventually, Koine Greek was developed, being a descendant of Attic with a large degree of Ionic influence. By the time Koine evolved into modern-day Greek, Sparta was speaking the same as the rest of Greece. Tsakonic, the descendant of Doric, is now only spoken in the small town of Leonidio and a few surrounding villages. They are the last Spartans.
@croicullagh7530
@croicullagh7530 Год назад
That's an inaccurate way to describe it. Attic was just a form of Ionian, and Mycenaean was the an older form of Greek.
@GildaLee27
@GildaLee27 5 лет назад
6:55 She said, "S'all good, Dawg" -- LOL. Love it!
@matsinorge
@matsinorge 3 года назад
Thank you for the video, helpt a lot for my school assignment
@costinpostolache5837
@costinpostolache5837 5 лет назад
Thanks for adding the music links
@ariochiv
@ariochiv 5 лет назад
I'm wondering what source Cicero had for his information on Sparta. Whether he relied on Xenophon or another source, or had some personal experience. But surely by Cicero's time, Sparta was, at best, a shadow of its former self.
@Pan_Z
@Pan_Z Год назад
All the Hellenes were by the time the Roman Republic conquered them.
@Mitaka.Kotsuka
@Mitaka.Kotsuka Год назад
Yeah, great civilizations the spartans... so wonderful... with limited power and the old men in charge... they should be sooo powerful...wait. what do you mean we conquered the shit out of them???? -Cicero. Probably
@Laocoon283
@Laocoon283 Год назад
He just made it up
@ultra-papasmurf
@ultra-papasmurf Год назад
sparta actually became a tourist attraction in the late republican period that would last centuries as a cultural novelty for rich romans to venture to and watch
@innosanto
@innosanto 10 месяцев назад
Cicero studied in Athens I think or with Greek teachers.
@mmcc321
@mmcc321 5 лет назад
The way the Spartans treated the Helots reminds me of the way the grasshoppers treat the ants in A Bugs Life.
@sultansaladin1135
@sultansaladin1135 4 года назад
What a great channel ..
@nuggetoftruth-ericking7489
@nuggetoftruth-ericking7489 5 лет назад
This was interesting. Thanks
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