I love how historians before Thucydides simply made shit up and no one ever questioned them. "It was a 300 vs 10 mil, my cousin was there and he told me"
I was about to comment in the original video uploaded yesterday that you forgot to mention that Leonidas was already 60 years old when he fought and died in Thermopylae.
@@randomcenturion7264 Badass indeed. The 300 Spartans were Leonidas' personal guard, and they were conditioned to fight to the death if they were ordered to do so. The Thespians, on the other hand, were no elites or professionals. They were commoners like most of us, and they chose out of their own will to stay and buy the rest of the Greeks time to retreat. The Thespians are the true heroes of Thermopylae if you ask me.
Then few years later Sparta was supported by the Persians in his war against Athens. Moral of the story: ancient Greeks may have hated persians but they hated other greeks much more.
"They're natural enemies, like Greeks and Trojans. Or Greeks and Persians. Or Greeks and other Greeks. Damn Greeks, they're ruining Greece!" "You Greeks are a contentious people, aren't you?" "You just made an enemy for life!"
Oh theres even better too, im fairly sure the Athenian guy who led the Army to victory at Marathon litteraly adopted Persian culture and lifestyle the next decade because the guy was a rich and powerfull man but the persians were richer and stronger and their lifestyle showed that lol
@@nessie9709 The 7000 greeks kicked the ah of prob 50.000 persians for 3 days. And we also won the battle of salamis where the greek ships were smaller. AND the successful expeditions into asia. That's what he's talking about.
@@Hypogeal-FoundationBe careful with numbers though, as historians if the past, just like journalists of the present, loved to highly exaggerate numbers in favor of the side they supported
@@Hypogeal-Foundation We really dont know that much about the actual battle. There are indicators that the Greeks very much didn't kick Persian ass but rather were slaughtered as they held their position. Even Herodot had to admit that despite his claim of 20.000 Persian casualties, his sources only saw around 1.000 dead Persians. He claimed that Xerxes just hid the remaining corpses, but considering much much else he made up, this may be called into doubt. Now, if we calculate that the Greek lost around 4.000 men, only killed around 1.000 Persians while only holding a narrow chokepoint, and ultimately delaying the Persians for a mere three days, the narrative really loses all glorious aspects, doesn't it? in fact, one might begin to understand why many Greek sources described the battle as a devastating defeat.
Buddy you missed the part that even after the defeat at the battle of marathon occurred, the Persian army surrounded Athens and the athenians were looking to surrender. Then report came that Darius had died and then they all retreated. No one was even thinking of the Greek invasion until Xerses thought that it would nice. His advisors told him you have other pressing matters but he didn't listen to them.
Leonidas didn't take the 300 Hippeis with him as they were traditionally peak of their physical condition, which basically meant very young. Instead he took 300 veterans with sons to carry their names, as depicted in the film/graphic novel.
@@CheeseOfMastersthat and a narrow pass to defend on, if that one traitor mf didn't rat out to the Persians who knows how many days they could have held other than the three day window they got
Australian history be like : - humans arrive in prehistoric australia - they get constantly griefed by the local fauna consisting of giant reptiles and a weird carnivoreous koala thing - they learn to master fire and obliberate them to extinction - natives vibe - the british discover australia - its colonization time - british send their criminals to australia - colonizers almost starve - one Guy who was arrested for stealing a potato masters farming - they don't starve - australia tries to get rid of the natives - they stop - australia tries to wage war with birds - they loose (skill issue) - ww2 time - japan tries to invade australia - they get welcomed by the local fauna - japanese when the swamps start speak crocodilian (merciful neptune) - the army gets eaten by crocodiles - australia tries to get rid off the natives again by making their kids Australian - the other Nations say can u don't and australia stops and says we're sorry - years later a prime minister disappears after simming and no one notices - australia gets invaded by rabbits and toads - australia tries to wage war with nature again by killing camels - they loose again - australian text
@@bartosz7706It was made during the time when there were so many parodies of popular movies like Harry Potter, Twilight, etc, it’s a super stupid but funny movie.
@@bartosz7706 well the movie is a great movie, and I personnally like some scenes but the movie was nominated for Worst Picture, Worst Supporting Actress (Electra), Worst Supporting Actress (Kardashian), Worst Director, Worst Screenplay, and Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off, or Sequel for the Raspberry Awards (that choses the worst film of the year). And the critics gave it a bad rating (a very bad one). Ah and there are some scenes conssidered vulgar (but there are not many so)
''For the sake of historical truth, I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death.'' - The Austrian Painter You know you are good when both sides praise you like this.
Do Hero's own so many slaves it consists the majority of their population? Do heros train their young since birth to fight in endless wars? No i dont think so, Sparta holds no glory and was simply a oppressive slave state deserveing no respect. They are the most overhyped state in history.
@@theicepickthatkilledtrotsk658 Joseph Stalin even praised them but I cant find it. Yep out of all allied powers who had the Germans declare war on them in 1940-1941 excluding Britain and the Soviet Union Greece ended up lasting the longest. At 57 days. France on the other hand. Fell in 41 days.
It was a matter of terrain and discipline more than anything. That's why castle spam would get so popular later too and indeed if you look at castle sieges you often find similarly ludicrous victories. That's also why the greeks shat their pants when they got surrounded and had to abandon the pass, btw. Shit is, when your enemy can only hit you from one direction and your troops have shields and pikes, well, you need very few men to fuck shit up. But if they find a way past your phalanx suddently your meaty posterior is exposed and you should really find a new frontline.
the movie is literally made to look as mythical as possible because it was the story told by one of the characters... the whole point of the movie is that its the retelling and not in any way showing how it really happened. like thats the whole movie... did you even watch it???
@@underarmbowlingincidentof1981 Pretty hard to deny the documentary as being factual if it's being told from an eye-witness. I 100% believe that the Spartans fought war rhinos and elephants, immortal troll looking warriors, a freaking ogre, and that Xerxes was 9 feet tall. Zeus knows though I guess.
As a Greek i call this video historical accurate but i suggest you make a video about salamis platea and mandinea (the battle of mandinea is not a well known battle but it was a Greek offensive at asian minor to liberate the Greeks there.
The Thebans also deciding to stay feels like an ironic glimpse into the future given how crucial they would be years later in breaking Spartan hegemony.
Ironically we always speak of Thebes, but we forget its the full Beotian confederation which truly destroyed the Spartan Hegemony, Thebes did win that one battle because of their chad and i think gay (what a surprise lol) leader, but while one win broke the full controll of Sparta its the following war that Sparta lost which broke them
@@Revick_Revasthe true story is the 300 were actually 7000 with full armor. and they lost the battle in the first round. the immortals also weren't even included in the battle. And leonidas died way earlier. And persians were about 100000 not 1 millions. also the army that showed in the movie looks nothing like persians.
Full armour? Is there a chance they'd take only half of it and go to war? What kind of retarded argument is that. And what so you mean first round. They lasted 3 days and only lost because they were betrayed.
Persian Empire be like: “Lets give Sparta-a very strict Greek monarchist society filled with hardcore warriors that are portrayed as defenders of democracy in a Hollywood movie, an ultimatum-what could possibly go wrong?“
@@WhenInDarknessSeekTheLight The 3 super powers were literally athens, thebes and Sparta... You prob talking about the time when sparta was already destroyed lol. Also 0.1 Spartans could beat yo ass, pathetic if you ask me since they lost to thebes. Just like how America is pathetic for losing vietnam and the middle east...
Sparta wasn't really a monarchy. It had two kings, not one, so that one could be out on campaign and the other stay in Sparta, also helpful in case one king died in battle. But the Kings were generally sidelined somewhat in politics by the 5 elected elders, that only served a term of one year and were voted by the Apella, the Lakedaimonian 'parliament' were every man above 30 was able to show up and vote. So in all reality, Sparta is pretty democratic in general.
@@nickklavdianos5136 Democratic in general!? Are we really ignoring the fact that an estimated 86% of the population of the state was literally enslaved by the 14%? Are Helots not people too?
The battle of Thermopylae: Thermopylae has a passage that would work perfect for phalanx and it would have won the Greeks the battle if it weren’t for a goat path. The plan to make sure nothing happens to the goat path is to send 1,000 Phocian soldiers to fend off the goat path, and pray that no one told the Achaemenid king Xerxes about the path. Now for the main battle, it was simple, 2,500 Locrians, 2,500 Thebans, 700 Thespians, and the 300 Spartans. Now eventually a farmer from Thermopylae told Xerxes about the goat path and Leonidas told every soldier except for the 300 Spartans to leave the battle(2 Spartans were also sent away as messengers) and everyone ran away except the Thespian soldiers. The Phocian army ran to a near hill to make their last stand. The 1,000 Soldiers were completely surrounded and killed. But the two Spartans that I mentioned earlier messaged Sparta and declared war with The Achaemenids, one year later 10,000 Spartans would fight in the battle of platea. Winning the war
the "6300" were free Greeks as well, from city states not slaves and the city states that participated were: Phocia Locris Arcadia Megaris Korinth Aitolia Thespians and a few smaller ones.
Yup there weren't just free Greeks in that battle, but there wasn't just Spartans as free Greeks either, also youtube hid my comment for some reasons :(
When you and 1000 or more of some of the best fighters around, have to go on duty while the best tournament around happens, dies because they never come and stop the flank 😢
Know the difference: “Those damn Hippies!” Something a boomer might say when gas prices rise “Those damn _Hippeis_ !” Something Xerses would say after half of his best troops get obliterated by some Greek bois
0:08 I saw the movie this clip was from in theaters with my friends in high school. Can't remember its name for the life of me, but it was mildly entertaining.
to be fair it was accurate that Leonidas left with 300 of his most elite troops, the only thing that was wrong is the scene where leonidas refuses Help from other armies willing to join the cause.
Look up the battle of wake island, it’s when pretty much the entire Japanese navy tried to take an island full of marines, they lost their first ship there.
@@vagabondvinlandsagashamoan2046 do some research. The Spartans were slaving warmongering savages while the Persians at that time were very tolerant and basically banned slavery.
The persians sponsored the greek civil war on either side to stimulate the conflict and weaken the greek states.The athenians would later also receive persian support and the persians themselves would hire greek mercenaries in their own civil war .Why is only sparta being blamed for"teaming up with the enemy".
They didn't actually team up. Persians very cleverly were mocking both sides funding their war making them destroy each other. I swear Persian politics are so underrated. Mfrs were clever.
They call the immortals because each man that died got instantly replaced by another one in the same uniform giving the illusion of them being immortal you could have just googled this instead of making a goofy comment.
I imagine a conversation going like this: Spartan 1: "Hey a traitor revealed a flank route and the Phocans ran, should we go too or...?" Spartan 2: "Fuck it, we ball" Spartan 1: "We ball"
To be fair, if everyone had run off, the light cavalry would have picked off many soldiers on their retreat. Some forces had to stay behind to cover the retreat, and while the Thebeans volunteered too, the Spartans seem to have volunteered right out of the gate, and after that point you're not going to change your mind.
As someone who is interested in studying history and old stories, I am completely familiar with the policy of Greek historians who wrote everything they saw in their dreams directly and without any distortion in their books...💀 Reading the comedy (Battle of Marathon) by Herodotus always makes me laugh.😆😅
i remember my 1st time to google map the area, then figured they couldve walked around it, then later figured how much the water has dried throughout the years 😅
im so happy that i somehow found this channel at some point i my life actually when i think about it... youtube algorithm had to show me this precious stuff earlier or later :D great video as always @MasterofRoflness
Will this video survive demonetization? Should I do another battle in History
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Do Parthian Persians who destroyed the selucid greeks!
I love how historians before Thucydides simply made shit up and no one ever questioned them. "It was a 300 vs 10 mil, my cousin was there and he told me"
Cousin is a better source than a dream, right?
"That's a nice timeline, historian. Why don't you back it up with a source?"
"The source is I made it the fuck up!"
Thucydides himself had been imprisoned during the peloponnesian war but he fought in it
Nah it was revealed in a dream
Pretty standard for ancient time 😂
I always enjoy the fact that Athens was destroyed yet it just inspired the Athenians to go harder at Salamis instead of giving up
Athens: *gets destroyed*
Athenians: "this is where the fun begins"
@@pocketinfinity6733 Athens: *gets destroyed*
Athenians: Nothing left to lose
@@mr.brightside7496
Greece gets invaded by Italy: Oh it's time for round 2 baby.
>loses
@jaredjosephsongheng372 well, next time don't support Cartage
I was about to comment in the original video uploaded yesterday that you forgot to mention that Leonidas was already 60 years old when he fought and died in Thermopylae.
>When the pension doesn't cover glory in battle
So was Theoden in Return of the King.
Damn Persian kids, get off my lawn
He fought them at age 60? Jesus christ is he superman?
@@_zerstorer5094the way you became a "MAN" in Sparta was to survive by yourself in the wilderness.....
Imagine what you had to do to become KING.
No mention of the 700 Thespians, who refused Leonidas' order to retreat and fought to the death to protect their homes and families. :(
Badass.
To add insult to injury their name is appropriated by dorky theater kids
@@attentionbajoranworkers4408?
@@randomcenturion7264 Badass indeed. The 300 Spartans were Leonidas' personal guard, and they were conditioned to fight to the death if they were ordered to do so. The Thespians, on the other hand, were no elites or professionals. They were commoners like most of us, and they chose out of their own will to stay and buy the rest of the Greeks time to retreat.
The Thespians are the true heroes of Thermopylae if you ask me.
@@saffron5802 I mean also any other common soldiers who remained at the battle like the Thebans for example
Then few years later Sparta was supported by the Persians in his war against Athens.
Moral of the story: ancient Greeks may have hated persians but they hated other greeks much more.
Greeks* not ancient greeks
“Nobody touches my brother except me” 😂
The best story of the era by far is that recorded in Xenophon's Anabasis.
"They're natural enemies, like Greeks and Trojans. Or Greeks and Persians. Or Greeks and other Greeks. Damn Greeks, they're ruining Greece!"
"You Greeks are a contentious people, aren't you?"
"You just made an enemy for life!"
Oh theres even better too, im fairly sure the Athenian guy who led the Army to victory at Marathon litteraly adopted Persian culture and lifestyle the next decade because the guy was a rich and powerfull man but the persians were richer and stronger and their lifestyle showed that lol
Despite everything I'm sure that battle was intense as hell. The underdog/outnumbered victory stories in wars are fascinating.
True but still a banger.
@@nessie9709
The 7000 greeks kicked the ah of prob 50.000 persians for 3 days.
And we also won the battle of salamis where the greek ships were smaller.
AND the successful expeditions into asia.
That's what he's talking about.
@@Hypogeal-FoundationBe careful with numbers though, as historians if the past, just like journalists of the present, loved to highly exaggerate numbers in favor of the side they supported
@@Hypogeal-Foundation We really dont know that much about the actual battle. There are indicators that the Greeks very much didn't kick Persian ass but rather were slaughtered as they held their position.
Even Herodot had to admit that despite his claim of 20.000 Persian casualties, his sources only saw around 1.000 dead Persians. He claimed that Xerxes just hid the remaining corpses, but considering much much else he made up, this may be called into doubt.
Now, if we calculate that the Greek lost around 4.000 men, only killed around 1.000 Persians while only holding a narrow chokepoint, and ultimately delaying the Persians for a mere three days, the narrative really loses all glorious aspects, doesn't it? in fact, one might begin to understand why many Greek sources described the battle as a devastating defeat.
@@Hypogeal-Foundationgreek copium we burned Athens
Buddy you missed the part that even after the defeat at the battle of marathon occurred, the Persian army surrounded Athens and the athenians were looking to surrender. Then report came that Darius had died and then they all retreated. No one was even thinking of the Greek invasion until Xerses thought that it would nice. His advisors told him you have other pressing matters but he didn't listen to them.
Then Macedonia decided there would be no threat of Persian invasion if there was no persia
@@skeleex
And No threat of anyone invading if there was literally no one else.
This isn't true, the persians were completely routed in the battle and tried to sail back to Athens, but the Athenians marched faster than the
@@Dimitriterrorman
Than the-
- Famous Last Words
- To be continued
@@Dimitriterrormanpersians got him mid comment
Leonidas didn't take the 300 Hippeis with him as they were traditionally peak of their physical condition, which basically meant very young. Instead he took 300 veterans with sons to carry their names, as depicted in the film/graphic novel.
Leonidas really did fight at 5% of his power, to avoid miffing the gods TOO much, huh.
@@auraguard0212 Well seems the gods rewarded him with some awesome stats.
@@CheeseOfMastersthat and a narrow pass to defend on, if that one traitor mf didn't rat out to the Persians who knows how many days they could have held other than the three day window they got
Did you really just cite a work of fiction as your source?
I recommend you look up the word 'depicted' and then look up the word 'proved' and see if you can spot the difference!
Australian history be like :
- humans arrive in prehistoric australia
- they get constantly griefed by the local fauna consisting of giant reptiles and a weird carnivoreous koala thing
- they learn to master fire and obliberate them to extinction
- natives vibe
- the british discover australia
- its colonization time
- british send their criminals to australia
- colonizers almost starve
- one Guy who was arrested for stealing a potato masters farming
- they don't starve
- australia tries to get rid of the natives
- they stop
- australia tries to wage war with birds
- they loose (skill issue)
- ww2 time
- japan tries to invade australia
- they get welcomed by the local fauna
- japanese when the swamps start speak crocodilian (merciful neptune)
- the army gets eaten by crocodiles
- australia tries to get rid off the natives again by making their kids Australian
- the other Nations say can u don't and australia stops and says we're sorry
- years later a prime minister disappears after simming and no one notices
- australia gets invaded by rabbits and toads
- australia tries to wage war with nature again by killing camels
- they loose again
- australian text
- another minister shat himself while in a McDonald.
The history of Australia is summarized in:
nature against nature.
man against nature.
nature against nature.
man vs man.
man vs nature.
repeat.
Missed found Gold/Coal reservoirs
Prime Minister dies after simming? I've heard Sims 4 was bad but that bad???
Don't forget the invasive toads and rabbits
The fact that you used scenes from the movie "meet the spartans" is legendary
What is wrong with this movie friend? Friends told me to not watch it
I love that movie so much, those clips were making smile like a dumbass lol
@@bartosz7706It was made during the time when there were so many parodies of popular movies like Harry Potter, Twilight, etc, it’s a super stupid but funny movie.
yeah meet the spartans is a film lenght of meme history before meme history is a thing
@@bartosz7706 well the movie is a great movie, and I personnally like some scenes but the movie was nominated for Worst Picture, Worst Supporting Actress (Electra), Worst Supporting Actress (Kardashian), Worst Director, Worst Screenplay, and Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off, or Sequel for the Raspberry Awards (that choses the worst film of the year). And the critics gave it a bad rating (a very bad one). Ah and there are some scenes conssidered vulgar (but there are not many so)
“Hence, we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but that heroes fight like Greeks.”
- Winston Churchill
''For the sake of historical truth, I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death.'' - The Austrian Painter
You know you are good when both sides praise you like this.
Do Hero's own so many slaves it consists the majority of their population? Do heros train their young since birth to fight in endless wars? No i dont think so, Sparta holds no glory and was simply a oppressive slave state deserveing no respect. They are the most overhyped state in history.
@@theicepickthatkilledtrotsk658
Joseph Stalin even praised them but I cant find it.
Yep out of all allied powers who had the Germans declare war on them in 1940-1941 excluding Britain and the Soviet Union
Greece ended up lasting the longest.
At 57 days.
France on the other hand.
Fell in 41 days.
@@jaredjosephsongheng372 Having to take Greece arguably cost them the war.
@@bustavonnutz
Germany got screwed by their teammate TWICE in both World Wars
Even though it wasn't only 300 men, it's still crazy they fought as well as they did against such overwhelming numbers
It was a matter of terrain and discipline more than anything. That's why castle spam would get so popular later too and indeed if you look at castle sieges you often find similarly ludicrous victories.
That's also why the greeks shat their pants when they got surrounded and had to abandon the pass, btw. Shit is, when your enemy can only hit you from one direction and your troops have shields and pikes, well, you need very few men to fuck shit up. But if they find a way past your phalanx suddently your meaty posterior is exposed and you should really find a new frontline.
it wasn't only 300 men, it was 300 Spartans...there were other Greeks there
still insanely out numbered though
Well, Sparta wasn't great, they took their citizen at the age of 7 and started training them for the military.
@@Ramschattrue, many of them were telling made up things
@@Ramschat
"Mere"
3 Days is pretty good considering they could go as far as Kalamata or 366Km in that amount of time, not counting Sieges.
300 lives as a 100% historically accurate documentary in my heart and mind.
Saying 300 is historically accurate is like saying that Joe biden is 100 % a capable president
Europeans are gay
the movie is literally made to look as mythical as possible because it was the story told by one of the characters...
the whole point of the movie is that its the retelling and not in any way showing how it really happened.
like thats the whole movie... did you even watch it???
@@underarmbowlingincidentof1981 Pretty hard to deny the documentary as being factual if it's being told from an eye-witness. I 100% believe that the Spartans fought war rhinos and elephants, immortal troll looking warriors, a freaking ogre, and that Xerxes was 9 feet tall. Zeus knows though I guess.
@@bigape8640lol tell him
"Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie." - Inscription on the spartan warrior burial mound
They lost the battle but won the war. That still counts as -one- heroic victory! xD
IIRC it's considered a strategic victory for delaying the Persian advance & demoralizing their army
1914-1918,1939-1945: we cant participate in the olympics because of the war
480BC: we cant participate in the war because of the olympics
As a Greek i call this video historical accurate but i suggest you make a video about salamis platea and mandinea (the battle of mandinea is not a well known battle but it was a Greek offensive at asian minor to liberate the Greeks there.
Meet the Spartans is canon, this video proves it
The Thebans also deciding to stay feels like an ironic glimpse into the future given how crucial they would be years later in breaking Spartan hegemony.
Ironically we always speak of Thebes, but we forget its the full Beotian confederation which truly destroyed the Spartan Hegemony, Thebes did win that one battle because of their chad and i think gay (what a surprise lol) leader, but while one win broke the full controll of Sparta its the following war that Sparta lost which broke them
Wasn’t the elite of their army all gay?
@@alpacaofthemountain8760
Correct
Love these vids, the perfect balance a of funny memes and knowledge
300 weakest Spartans are so OP they had to demonetize the video.
Spartans refusing to fight for the 50th time because of the random religious ceremony of the month
The 300 movie
: based on a true story 💀
Based on a comic book, based on a true story.
@@Revick_Revasthe true story is the 300 were actually 7000 with full armor. and they lost the battle in the first round. the immortals also weren't even included in the battle. And leonidas died way earlier. And persians were about 100000 not 1 millions. also the army that showed in the movie looks nothing like persians.
@@Revick_Revas Based on a comic book, based on an older movie, based on ancient propaganda, based on a true story.*
@@parsarustami774 100k vs 7k in ancient times is totally one-sided though
Full armour? Is there a chance they'd take only half of it and go to war? What kind of retarded argument is that.
And what so you mean first round. They lasted 3 days and only lost because they were betrayed.
I just read the community post about this video, refreshed my subscribed feed, and there it was!
Virgin battle of Thermopylae (480B.C) vs Chad battle of Thermopylae (279B.C)
both of them are great and there is a third battle of Thermopolaye during ww2
@@stickman_the_player5067 Them gates are hotter than Helen of Troy~
the only time ancient Greece unified, when an outside threat appeared.
When arrows blocked the sun, they fell
Tonight they dine in hell
Thank you for not letting the gem that is the film "Meet the Spartans" go unnoticed.
I just knew you'll use Meet the Spartans footage for this
Leonidas basically threw because his allies got scared for even a moment. Somehow that's more badass than in the movie. 😅
*hears Farya Faraji*
I see you too are a person of culture
You forgot to mention the 700 thespians
Absolute chads who went out with the spartans
'Hippeis' is the Greek word for cavalry, though.
It is, but because horses were expensive it came to mean someone rich or elite
@@greekcomenterperson446 Makes sense.
Persian Empire be like: “Lets give Sparta-a very strict Greek monarchist society filled with hardcore warriors that are portrayed as defenders of democracy in a Hollywood movie, an ultimatum-what could possibly go wrong?“
It worked for the Macedonians.
Considering Sparta lost to Thebes Sparta is quiete pathetic
@@WhenInDarknessSeekTheLight
The 3 super powers were literally athens, thebes and Sparta...
You prob talking about the time when sparta was already destroyed lol.
Also 0.1 Spartans could beat yo ass, pathetic if you ask me since they lost to thebes.
Just like how America is pathetic for losing vietnam and the middle east...
Sparta wasn't really a monarchy. It had two kings, not one, so that one could be out on campaign and the other stay in Sparta, also helpful in case one king died in battle. But the Kings were generally sidelined somewhat in politics by the 5 elected elders, that only served a term of one year and were voted by the Apella, the Lakedaimonian 'parliament' were every man above 30 was able to show up and vote. So in all reality, Sparta is pretty democratic in general.
@@nickklavdianos5136 Democratic in general!? Are we really ignoring the fact that an estimated 86% of the population of the state was literally enslaved by the 14%? Are Helots not people too?
I think the battles of Marathon and Salamis deserve their own videos
The battle of Thermopylae:
Thermopylae has a passage that would work perfect for phalanx and it would have won the Greeks the battle if it weren’t for a goat path. The plan to make sure nothing happens to the goat path is to send 1,000 Phocian soldiers to fend off the goat path, and pray that no one told the Achaemenid king Xerxes about the path. Now for the main battle, it was simple, 2,500 Locrians, 2,500 Thebans, 700 Thespians, and the 300 Spartans. Now eventually a farmer from Thermopylae told Xerxes about the goat path and Leonidas told every soldier except for the 300 Spartans to leave the battle(2 Spartans were also sent away as messengers) and everyone ran away except the Thespian soldiers. The Phocian army ran to a near hill to make their last stand. The 1,000 Soldiers were completely surrounded and killed. But the two Spartans that I mentioned earlier messaged Sparta and declared war with The Achaemenids, one year later 10,000 Spartans would fight in the battle of platea. Winning the war
That was good. GJ man, you are doing great job!
Fans: This is madness
RUclips: Madness? This is youtube
Mind you, 300 and 6300 slave soldier wouldn't be as catchy.
the "6300" were free Greeks as well, from city states not slaves and the city states that participated were: Phocia Locris Arcadia Megaris Korinth Aitolia Thespians and a few smaller ones.
Each Spartan warrior brought with him 1 to 3 Helots. So 900 slave soldiers at most.
What do you think the American economy uses?
African slaves.
There are more slaves than there ever were before (thanks to the arab slave trade).
@@nikolaosboukouvalas449 That guy gets It
Yup there weren't just free Greeks in that battle, but there wasn't just Spartans as free Greeks either, also youtube hid my comment for some reasons :(
Samurai Jack clip? Instant high quality video
Didnt know there was a battle where lunchmeats were used as weapons.
Wow, never knew he used hippies to fight the persians.
*WTF*
now i get it why he put Ahmadi nejad as his pfp
This reminds me that meet the spartans wasnt a bad movie
I have never watched the 2006 300 till today and at the same day this video shows up,tis can't just be a coincidence
I know faryafaraji music when I hear it. I see you are a man of culture as well...
I love how it took an army over 100k a traitor and some in circling tactics to FINALLY take the spartans out 🤣🤣🤣
Plus thebes sorry I hope no one gets offended
Forgot to mention the underrated 700 thespians that stayed with the 300 how do you get Wikipedia wrong 😭
Beautiful
Persians after throwing 20 quintillion peasants at several hundred greeks:
"Why won't you die?!"
Greeks:
"Force concentration, son."
Cringe comment
@@cyrusthegreat7030Persian spotted. Submit or no gold hummer for you.
Persian army was very diverse but still couldn't get past hoplites till they were betrayed. Proof that diversity is overrated!( just a joke)
''I think it's time for Leonidas, to let'her rip!''
Our Immortals flee the battlefield!
SHAMEFUL DISPLAY
OUR GENERAL IS UNDER ATTACK
Shamefur dispuray*.
Forgot to add that Xerxes scouts reported about the "rituals" of the Greeks before battle and his first thought was "that's gay"
Never underestimate a Spartan.
0:15 this is sparta!
Nor overestimate them either tbf
Their discipline and might was admirable, but their unflexibility i swear
More like overestimate them, they lost the battle.
@@cyrusthegreat7030 check the kd or the aftermatch of your "succesful invasion"
@@cyrusthegreat7030 That's like saying a nuke is a loss because it has to be destroyed in order for it to be useful
Video idea for MasterofRoflness:
Weakest Genoese Chadmiral
(Andrea Doria)
Any time I try to throw hands 1 vs 50 they just call the police and write news stories about "Troubled man starting fistfight in a kindergarten"
When you and 1000 or more of some of the best fighters around, have to go on duty while the best tournament around happens, dies because they never come and stop the flank 😢
I will not stand for there being no mention of the 700 Thespians who died alongside the Thebans and Spartans.
This has exactly 300k views.
Greece casually being the entirety of the based department throughout the eons.
Know the difference:
“Those damn Hippies!”
Something a boomer might say when gas prices rise
“Those damn _Hippeis_ !”
Something Xerses would say after half of his best troops get obliterated by some Greek bois
Bra, Meet the Spartans, havent seen that in years.. i miss parody movies so much
Music by farya faraji , master of roflness , you are a gem.
Darya e noor you are.
Thank you
0:08 I saw the movie this clip was from in theaters with my friends in high school. Can't remember its name for the life of me, but it was mildly entertaining.
Meet The Spartans
@@AmericanCryptid1 _Thank you. I can't believe the name escaped me._
That DSP soundbite at the end got me good 🤣🤣
Thermistocles at Artemisium: "Ayo . . . ?!"
When you just come to the video, and there is already 300 likes.
I fucking love your channel man, hahaha.
I wish more people had a cynical sense of humor over understanding how silly history... and humanity... is...
youtube being youtube
2:52
*OZAI THE KING OFF FIRE MENTINED!!!!!!!!!!*
Nobody:
Sparta: Single handedly carrying the continuation of the Greek civilization
to be fair it was accurate that Leonidas left with 300 of his most elite troops, the only thing that was wrong is the scene where leonidas refuses Help from other armies willing to join the cause.
Look up the battle of wake island, it’s when pretty much the entire Japanese navy tried to take an island full of marines, they lost their first ship there.
As a person named Darius, i see this as an absolute loss. But then again, perhaps a victory.
I loved Meet the Spartans. Gold era of spoof movies.
You forgot the part that spartans Bend the knee and took Persian offer in the end and take the fight to Athens and Macedonia
Fun fact the Persians were actually the good guys.
How?
@@vagabondvinlandsagashamoan2046 do some research. The Spartans were slaving warmongering savages while the Persians at that time were very tolerant and basically banned slavery.
@@Phantom-bh5ru Thanks👍
An Empire banning Slavery i call bullshit
Where can I find this parody of the movie 300?
I think it's called "Meet the Spartans ".
Here before demonetization!😂
Farya Faraji music detected. Head-jam dancing motions activated
You forgot to add the part where later the Spartans join the Persians in beating up the Athenians.
The persians sponsored the greek civil war on either side to stimulate the conflict and weaken the greek states.The athenians would later also receive persian support and the persians themselves would hire greek mercenaries in their own civil war .Why is only sparta being blamed for"teaming up with the enemy".
They didn't actually team up. Persians very cleverly were mocking both sides funding their war making them destroy each other. I swear Persian politics are so underrated. Mfrs were clever.
20 years later by the way
Baldy bangin his skull against the (best) phalanx head on like a total rookie
They fought over leonides corpse a couple times, until finally they were all dead
1998: An old ass man makes a comic about naked bodybuilders fighting ancient, LGBT Islamists (this is how Spartans will be portrayed from now on).
Xerxes is in both 300 and Veggie Tales
i had no idea what was happening the entire time
I was there, and there were actually 304 of us but 300 rolls off the tongue better
You should make a video about odysseas andrutsos
Why did they call themselves immortals if they could die? Were they stupid?
They call the immortals because each man that died got instantly replaced by another one in the same uniform giving the illusion of them being immortal you could have just googled this instead of making a goofy comment.
@@cyrusthegreat7030 interesting fact, but he was just joking
Hahahaha lmao 😂😂
I imagine a conversation going like this:
Spartan 1: "Hey a traitor revealed a flank route and the Phocans ran, should we go too or...?"
Spartan 2: "Fuck it, we ball"
Spartan 1: "We ball"
To be fair, if everyone had run off, the light cavalry would have picked off many soldiers on their retreat. Some forces had to stay behind to cover the retreat, and while the Thebeans volunteered too, the Spartans seem to have volunteered right out of the gate, and after that point you're not going to change your mind.
Salamis ramming each other is rather hilarious
Antiquity type beats got me acting up frfr
Skill matters more than numbers.
As someone who is interested in studying history and old stories, I am completely familiar with the policy of Greek historians who wrote everything they saw in their dreams directly and without any distortion in their books...💀
Reading the comedy (Battle of Marathon) by Herodotus always makes me laugh.😆😅
i remember my 1st time to google map the area, then figured they couldve walked around it, then later figured how much the water has dried throughout the years 😅
im so happy that i somehow found this channel at some point i my life
actually when i think about it... youtube algorithm had to show me this precious stuff earlier or later :D
great video as always @MasterofRoflness
But why not a single scene from The 300 Spartans?
lil bro just discovered 300
Long live OLEME EL DEDO!
This song is fire AF.