Like how Sparta at first begged Athens to not trust Persia and then when Athens need help Sparta just said "nah, do it yo self man." And then finally decided to help
The Spartan army would not leave on campaign unless the omens were favorable. It wasn't that they wouldn't, it's that their religion commanded it. Until the omens told them to march, they did not march.
It takes enormous balls to choose,the moment you know you're in danger of being outflanked, to march forward and try to break the enemy lines before you get sandwiched. Persians had this in the bag but their lines couldn't hold the weight of such big balls.
History tells us Sparta was filled with brilliant people who understood that war was not a thing to be taken lightly, and it shows the men trained their entire lives for war but never really threw their lives away in a pointless battle.
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Another fantastic video, my all time favourite RUclips channel thank you! I did not even know of the Greek assault at Samos, details like this is what makes this channel, keep it up 👏🏽
Laughed at @16:09.... even while closing in on the opposition, Greeks managed to find a reason to argue about among themselves, on who gets the honorary (and tougher to fight in) positions on the edges of the formation...
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The battle that basically ended Persian expansion as a whole to the West. Also Persians lost all the gains they had after their first invasion. Would love to see a video about how much that affected the empire internally.
“And so my king died, and my brothers died, barely a year ago. Long I pondered my king's cryptic talk of victory. Time has proven him wise, for from free Greek to free Greek, the word was spread that bold Leonidas and his three hundred, so far from home, laid down their lives. Not just for Sparta, but for all Greece and the promise this country holds.” “Now, here on this ragged patch of earth called Plataea, Xerxes's hordes face obliteration!” “HA-OOH!” “Just there the barbarians huddle, sheer terror gripping tight their hearts with icy fingers... knowing full well what merciless horrors they suffered at the swords and spears of three hundred. Yet they stare now across the plain at ten thousand Spartans commanding thirty thousand free Greeks! HA-OOH!” “HA-OOH! HA-OOH! HA-OOH!” “The enemy outnumber us a paltry three to one, good odds for any Greek. This day we rescue a world from mysticism and tyranny and usher in a future brighter than anything we can imagine. Give thanks, men, to Leonidas and the brave 300! TO VICTORY!!!”
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My best history channel on youtube ever. Subscribed since 2020 i think, im enjoying every single time those brilliant detailed videos. More please! 😊 Btw, It's fascinating how greeks back then, even when they were fighting for there mere existance, fought between each other. Just a thought. No worries.
This battle was for the Persians to lose. They gave away their trump card. The Persians held the upperhand on the plain behind the Asopos river. They had made their encampement behind there as well. They were banking on the Greeks moving down onto the flat plains infront of the river whereby the Persian would then cross and engage the Greeks on an extensive open field where all the Persian advantages could be brought to bear, such as cavalry flanking maneuvers, as well as ample time to attrite the Hoplite ranks using archers firing for an extended time. However the Greeks instead retreated further back onto the slopes and rocky ground, seeing this the Persians got hasty moving forward not wanting the Greeks getting away. This was not a deliberate strategy on the part of the Greeks, they actually got second thoughts on giving battle as they became doubtful if they could prevail at all. Particularly Mardonius was irritated by the idea of the Greeks refusing battle. So the Greeks split up into three segments as they were retreating inadvertently drawing the Persians off into three separate engagements on the slopes where the Greeks held the high ground. At first the Persians inflicted some serious losses by launching arrow volleys into Greek ranks from fairly close distances. Then both went for close combat in which the Greeks were better trained, armed and armored in their hoplite Phalanxes. This how it went down broadly speaking. The Persian leadership was impetous and made the mistake of fighting on the Greek terms.
The soldiers of the Immortal Guard were the ones who created the largest empire in history and it was recorded as a record in the Guinness Book of Records. Greece was just a village.
@@bahramdinarvand4399And then they lost that empire...to those same Greek villages and those same Greek phalanxes, made up of those same Greek Hoplites, united under Macedon.
Man I just feel bad the the Persians here. The tactics were perfect, there were no mistakes, they just got beaten by Superior troops. Damn that must suck.
persians fumbled when they attacked en-masse without proper tactics. had they surrounded the spartans in the left, it would have been a very different outcome
The Persian Commander Mardonius misunderstood the actions of the Spartans, and rushed into the attack, resulting in his brutal death, and the destruction of his army. Had he kept his cool probably it wouldn't have been a total disaster.
Man, how did the Spartans get the reputation of badass warriors? Cowardly action after cowardly action, always letting others take the hit while staying at home doing nothing until the very last moment. No surprise that not long after the Persians were beaten, they worked with the Persians and later fought Athens.
It's complicated. Until the tactical innovations of epimonandes (and the preceding withering of spartan capabilities as a result of the peloponnesian war), spartan hoplites were indeed the most elite fighting force of their time. However, they also had a deeply cautious tactical mindset due to how their society was structured. Most critically because their entire agricultural base was composed of a slave population that completely outnumbered them, and so they were always deeply wary of large mobilizations or unneccesary losses of their elite units due to fear of internal revolt. They also had very slow population growth due to closed immigartion policies, and training up their Spartiate warrior class took massive investment in time and training. They were also very cognizant of the utility of cultivating and preserving their prestige, as it allowed them to avoid such risky mobilizations, and that further reinforced their cautious tactical thinking. As far as the Persian question that's complicated too. They did indeed take Persian money in order to build a fleet to contest Athens, due to the fact that Athens was immune to the superiority of Spartan land forces by extending strong walls all the way to their port and maintaining naval supply routes, and this did cater to Persian desire to foment internal division in Greece. However, it was also true that Athens had begun to weaponize the alliances previously made to defend greece from the Persians, slowly turning it into a form of extortion and imperial expansion against their fellow greeks that eventually drew Sparta into a war to check them. Both sides did plenty worth criticizing during this period, but it is not black and white. Sparta was a strange enigmatic society, with aspects that were both deeply objectionable and archaic such as their chattel slavery which was unusually bad even for the time, and also uniquely ahead of their time in other ways such as rights, education, atonomy, and property ownership for women at a time when the rest of greece treated women like property. Deeply conservative in their thinking, and yet also completely unorthodox in many of their institutions like communal land distribution and forbidding the use of money (hence why they needed Persian money to hire sailors and ships). It's not easy to put them in a box we would easily recognize today. In the end, their entire society was built around the idea of never needing to change, and they were able to sustain their way of life for many centuries before it eventually reached its limits due to being inflexible to changing times and innovations.
@@danbadour7 loved the analysis...as a Greek myself let me add some things. Sparta didnt care for the other city states because back then the idea of a united Greece was a joke. Spartans co operated with Athenians because they freared of losing the Peloponnese to Persians and they needed Athens navy. As for the Peloponnesian wars Sparta took money from the Persians just because they prefered Persians to Athenians. They wanted to be Greece's best city state and they were willing to do anything to obtain that title.The united Greece idea came into reality with Alexander The Great and his father.
It was the Spartans that actually broke the deadlock in this fight though while the Athenians were pinned on the mountain by the Persian archers!!! So i don't know what history you're reading mate
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I would love it if you could make a video on the Kalinga war fought in the Indian subcontinent. It has a lot of casualities with the war having a great impact on the invader and changing his outlook on the war.
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Schedule got disrupted a little due to issues on the private front, but we should return to Saturdays soon.
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Like how Sparta at first begged Athens to not trust Persia and then when Athens need help Sparta just said "nah, do it yo self man." And then finally decided to help
Greek politics. They distrust each other more than their external foes.
They did so because the Corithian wall was more defensable, a sensible thought considering the might of the greatest empire ever assembled
The Spartan army would not leave on campaign unless the omens were favorable. It wasn't that they wouldn't, it's that their religion commanded it. Until the omens told them to march, they did not march.
They love to hate each other arent they?
Oh, Sparta's diplomacy was as good as our politicians today
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It takes enormous balls to choose,the moment you know you're in danger of being outflanked, to march forward and try to break the enemy lines before you get sandwiched. Persians had this in the bag but their lines couldn't hold the weight of such big balls.
Wonderful!
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History tells us Sparta was filled with brilliant people who understood that war was not a thing to be taken lightly, and it shows the men trained their entire lives for war but never really threw their lives away in a pointless battle.
First Salamis n now Plataea! Thanks HM as always.
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The omens are good
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The Anarchy #4
The Lost Eagles Part 2
Excellent HM video with great content and graphics. Please do a series on the last Great War of Antiquity, Roman vs. Persian.
I seriously love this it’s like a movie or reading a book, I can just picture it
Another fantastic video, my all time favourite RUclips channel thank you! I did not even know of the Greek assault at Samos, details like this is what makes this channel, keep it up 👏🏽
Sparta was such a tsundere in these wars, I can't find a better term for it. Amazing video as always.
Laughed at @16:09.... even while closing in on the opposition, Greeks managed to find a reason to argue about among themselves, on who gets the honorary (and tougher to fight in) positions on the edges of the formation...
Greeks haven't changed at all in the last 3000 years haha
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The battle that basically ended Persian expansion as a whole to the West. Also Persians lost all the gains they had after their first invasion. Would love to see a video about how much that affected the empire internally.
Thank you
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Awesome, thank you!
“And so my king died, and my brothers died, barely a year ago. Long I pondered my king's cryptic talk of victory. Time has proven him wise, for from free Greek to free Greek, the word was spread that bold Leonidas and his three hundred, so far from home, laid down their lives. Not just for Sparta, but for all Greece and the promise this country holds.”
“Now, here on this ragged patch of earth called Plataea, Xerxes's hordes face obliteration!”
“HA-OOH!”
“Just there the barbarians huddle, sheer terror gripping tight their hearts with icy fingers... knowing full well what merciless horrors they suffered at the swords and spears of three hundred. Yet they stare now across the plain at ten thousand Spartans commanding thirty thousand free Greeks! HA-OOH!”
“HA-OOH! HA-OOH! HA-OOH!”
“The enemy outnumber us a paltry three to one, good odds for any Greek. This day we rescue a world from mysticism and tyranny and usher in a future brighter than anything we can imagine. Give thanks, men, to Leonidas and the brave 300! TO VICTORY!!!”
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Platea really gets overshadowed a lot by Thermopylae and Salamis
Dude, these videos are magic! I could imagine myself in the ranks when all hell breaks loose. Bravo sir.
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Another well made presentation. Good work, folks.
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It would be awesome to see a 300 depiction of the battle of Plataea, to conclude the whole 300 series.
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Another masterpiece... Thank you very very much to teach us what amazing were theses battles, with some humor sens and deep knowledges 🙏
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My best history channel on youtube ever. Subscribed since 2020 i think, im enjoying every single time those brilliant detailed videos. More please! 😊 Btw, It's fascinating how greeks back then, even when they were fighting for there mere existance, fought between each other. Just a thought. No worries.
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This battle was for the Persians to lose. They gave away their trump card. The Persians held the upperhand on the plain behind the Asopos river. They had made their encampement behind there as well. They were banking on the Greeks moving down onto the flat plains infront of the river whereby the Persian would then cross and engage the Greeks on an extensive open field where all the Persian advantages could be brought to bear, such as cavalry flanking maneuvers, as well as ample time to attrite the Hoplite ranks using archers firing for an extended time. However the Greeks instead retreated further back onto the slopes and rocky ground, seeing this the Persians got hasty moving forward not wanting the Greeks getting away. This was not a deliberate strategy on the part of the Greeks, they actually got second thoughts on giving battle as they became doubtful if they could prevail at all. Particularly Mardonius was irritated by the idea of the Greeks refusing battle. So the Greeks split up into three segments as they were retreating inadvertently drawing the Persians off into three separate engagements on the slopes where the Greeks held the high ground. At first the Persians inflicted some serious losses by launching arrow volleys into Greek ranks from fairly close distances. Then both went for close combat in which the Greeks were better trained, armed and armored in their hoplite Phalanxes. This how it went down broadly speaking. The Persian leadership was impetous and made the mistake of fighting on the Greek terms.
another wonderful insight
Thank you. HM.
Always great content! Keep it up
Awesome vid man! 👌
The Persians were just no match for the Greek Hoplites. I have been waiting for along time for a video of this great battle. Thank you HistoryMarche.
The soldiers of the Immortal Guard were the ones who created the largest empire in history and it was recorded as a record in the Guinness Book of Records. Greece was just a village.
@@bahramdinarvand4399 "largest empire in history" up to that point
@@bahramdinarvand4399 Yep and still came to Greece and got their a$$ kicked.
@@bahramdinarvand4399And then they lost that empire...to those same Greek villages and those same Greek phalanxes, made up of those same Greek Hoplites, united under Macedon.
@@vortigan9068 True, but no empire in history could include 40% of the world's population
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Amazing! Thank you.
As always, thank you. Amazing content.
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Perhaps the best analysis of this battle until now.
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Man I just feel bad the the Persians here. The tactics were perfect, there were no mistakes, they just got beaten by Superior troops. Damn that must suck.
What? There was a bunch of mistakes on both sides.
persians fumbled when they attacked en-masse without proper tactics. had they surrounded the spartans in the left, it would have been a very different outcome
The Persian Commander Mardonius misunderstood the actions of the Spartans, and rushed into the attack, resulting in his brutal death, and the destruction of his army. Had he kept his cool probably it wouldn't have been a total disaster.
A good film. Thank you for great work.
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Any chance of doing an extended series on the reconquista?
Interesting everyone overlooks this battle unfortunately thanks for doing a video on it! Here's a fitting sacrifice to the algorithm in return
Very good stuff as usual!
Man, how did the Spartans get the reputation of badass warriors? Cowardly action after cowardly action, always letting others take the hit while staying at home doing nothing until the very last moment. No surprise that not long after the Persians were beaten, they worked with the Persians and later fought Athens.
@@reyson01 while athens and thebes didn't make the same right?
It's complicated. Until the tactical innovations of epimonandes (and the preceding withering of spartan capabilities as a result of the peloponnesian war), spartan hoplites were indeed the most elite fighting force of their time. However, they also had a deeply cautious tactical mindset due to how their society was structured. Most critically because their entire agricultural base was composed of a slave population that completely outnumbered them, and so they were always deeply wary of large mobilizations or unneccesary losses of their elite units due to fear of internal revolt. They also had very slow population growth due to closed immigartion policies, and training up their Spartiate warrior class took massive investment in time and training. They were also very cognizant of the utility of cultivating and preserving their prestige, as it allowed them to avoid such risky mobilizations, and that further reinforced their cautious tactical thinking.
As far as the Persian question that's complicated too. They did indeed take Persian money in order to build a fleet to contest Athens, due to the fact that Athens was immune to the superiority of Spartan land forces by extending strong walls all the way to their port and maintaining naval supply routes, and this did cater to Persian desire to foment internal division in Greece. However, it was also true that Athens had begun to weaponize the alliances previously made to defend greece from the Persians, slowly turning it into a form of extortion and imperial expansion against their fellow greeks that eventually drew Sparta into a war to check them. Both sides did plenty worth criticizing during this period, but it is not black and white.
Sparta was a strange enigmatic society, with aspects that were both deeply objectionable and archaic such as their chattel slavery which was unusually bad even for the time, and also uniquely ahead of their time in other ways such as rights, education, atonomy, and property ownership for women at a time when the rest of greece treated women like property. Deeply conservative in their thinking, and yet also completely unorthodox in many of their institutions like communal land distribution and forbidding the use of money (hence why they needed Persian money to hire sailors and ships). It's not easy to put them in a box we would easily recognize today. In the end, their entire society was built around the idea of never needing to change, and they were able to sustain their way of life for many centuries before it eventually reached its limits due to being inflexible to changing times and innovations.
@@danbadour7 I think that is the best summary of the spartians i ever read outside of professional historians and peer reviewed articles!
@@danbadour7 loved the analysis...as a Greek myself let me add some things. Sparta didnt care for the other city states because back then the idea of a united Greece was a joke. Spartans co operated with Athenians because they freared of losing the Peloponnese to Persians and they needed Athens navy. As for the Peloponnesian wars Sparta took money from the Persians just because they prefered Persians to Athenians. They wanted to be Greece's best city state and they were willing to do anything to obtain that title.The united Greece idea came into reality with Alexander The Great and his father.
It was the Spartans that actually broke the deadlock in this fight though while the Athenians were pinned on the mountain by the Persian archers!!! So i don't know what history you're reading mate
Cool to see the Potidae get some recognition. Always cool to see minor forces not entirely ignored
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Im addicted to this channel, and I was wondering, could you talk about the Battle of Posada?
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Much appreciated! The omens are good.
I am Greek! You are amazing man! So accurate all you say !!
As a Greek i always considered the battle of Plataea as our All Star Game.
As a Roman-Greek I agree!
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I would love it if you could make a video on the Kalinga war fought in the Indian subcontinent. It has a lot of casualities with the war having a great impact on the invader and changing his outlook on the war.
Just noticed Greece content dropped around the time the new Greece DLC. of AoE 2 release. Some donator must be loving history I see.
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