Misunderstood Moments in History – The Spartan Myth

600+ angry fans of a cheesy movie full of men fighting in their underwear & wearing capes.

Finally accurate history about the Spartans.

Asia also have a spartan
Name:Gorkha warriors

Herodotus is such a terrible writer, disgusting bias and lies in his writing…apparntly Nigerians have black semen according to Herodotus, and that Africa has ants the size of dogs..uhh thats just the 2 I remember but yeah. This guy..only reason he is used as a primary source is cos there is like no other well preserved sources.

debunk America
should be easy considering all the genocide, racism, murder, slavery, stealing of native's land ect…

thought you were calling them spartshits.

So the real Spartans were more like a Proud Politician Race than warriors XD
Which is actually an interesting inspiration for fictional societies as well when you think of it, thoough anything set in more modern times would need an alternative to the slave workers, perhaps robots.

So does this claim makes the samurai warriors the most fierce soldiers in History?

"Built on the backs of slaves" – come on MR polticially correct can you find 1 successful culture that DIDNT use slaves? Smh so cunty

Invicta, why are you so angry?

"There's no evidence that he fought for glory to death." Except that he actually did

Commies ruin everything.

Athenians, major Spartan enemies thanked Sparta for guarding their retreat, which eventually saved the whole aeria. You failed completely

You failed

You are stating "conquering Messinia" like it's nothing. Messinians were also major badasses. You failed to debunk right at the start

Look at all these butt hurt ppl not willing to believe Spartans didn't walk around in speedos and didn't fend off an army of Persians alone

Agoge : "The aim of the system was to produce strong and capable warriors to serve in the Spartan army" . Good citizens u say ?

Well,since others are pointing out stuff I would just like to point out that: No Ancient sources mention group training exercises…Wuuut? Spartans were hoplites in the end and fought in fish scale formation,that means if you dont fight in harmony with others,you create a breach for the enemy and you all dead.So the whole training is group training.It didnt matter how much you killed but how good you held the line.Also no weapon training? How can you go to war without knowing how to use a sword.This phd guy really wants to bring spartans down but whatever,they are still more badass than his vikings

Please do a video to dispell the myths of the Aztecs. Many claim them as an unfairly conquered people, whose civilization was minding its own business till the spanish came.

Apparently no one wants truth to succeed, not when the story is more entertaining.

"We will never know what compelled Leonidas to stay…"… Yeah, its all those reasons you called propaganda… It was those reasons…

"Myth" is too strong (and "clickbait-y") a word, and this video is itself a cherry-picked narrative. The thing with history is that is occurs over a long time. We know that Sparta did not exist eternally in the past, and we are not ruled by Sparta today, so of course there must have been a "rise" and "fall." The superior military reputation of Argos and the Battle of Champions all occurred prior to the "rise," when Sparta defeated Argos in 544 BC, while the Battle of Leuktra in 371 BC marks the "fall," by which time the earlier martial traditions had already been severely diluted. Sparta held military dominance between those dates, and it is this period, between the "rise" and "fall," for which it is remembered in today's popular culture. Events during this period, such as the Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC), actually occurred and are not myths. (Other issues such as helots are tangential, since Sparta is not remembered for egalitarianism in the first place.)

This dude is so high on political correctness

Leonidas wasn't as useless as you said ffs.

The reason he stayed despite knowing Sparta itself and his small force of about 10,000 men in total could not hold a force 12x it's size at 120,000 men. However, he too knew that if he was to just back out and retreat, the entire of Greece would be overrun as all other states were either still preparing or were frantically trying to ready up forces to fight Xerxes and those forces at that fateful battle, even if they failed, would have bought time for the other states to prepare. With the victorious spirits of Marathon still rising high and mighty in the Greeco hearts, it's hard for them to even think of "retreat". Besides, Thermopylae was the best to hold on for time as it has the cliffs to it's west, sea to the east and a passageway of only about 200m apart from the sea and the cliffs thus it's the best spot to fight and if the Greeco formation was to retreat, they'll lose this great element.

The Marine Corps is the modern day Spartans in terms of PR.

So 300 would have made the Spartans proud

Wow… this is just too one-sided. I mean, general "knowledge" is pro-spartan one-sided, but this is just the opposite. It may contain more truth that the commonly accepted view, but you went too far. No mention (that I remember) of maybe the most important greek war, the Peloponnesian War, which Sparta won, making them the hegemonic power for over 30 years (until Leuctra). No mention that their women had more rights than most greek women, and they also trained. No mention of Thucydides and other historians who spoke highly about their military, and yes, they could be wrong or exaggerating, but you need hard evidence to prove that, and a random PhD in history (no disrespect intended) is not nearly enough for that. Xenophon lived in this time and admired the spartans, being an athenian. It's like you say that they became militaristic after Thermopylae, but there is evidence that that started around the 6th century B.C. Their training was hard, their food scant, they were supposed to steal without being discovered, they HAD to be militaristic because the helots (which weren't slaves in the usual sense of the word) were far more numerous (7:1 ratio around Leonidas time), you depicted the spartans almost as aristocrats living a lavish life, and this makes no sense. They needed to be bred for war, or close, to sustain their unique social structure. You would need to re-explain a lot of things to sustain this "new view". Why they had no walls? I could go on but I will leave it there… but why nobody EVER says that the spartans had 2 fucking kings, for fucks sake!!! You had an opportunity at 12:45, "Kings (2 men)".

im sure that most cultures have done the exact thing throughout their history

Spartiates with their Bullshits.  It rhymes too.

Bust the samurai myth.

And, modern Western society is more heavily influenced by the Achaemenid Empire than any Greek city state (other than Athens). Especially when it comes to tolerance and human rights. Cyrus the great did pay (from his personal coffers) for the Second Temple in Jerusalem.

Excellent video. As a small point, you skipped over Bronze Age Sparta: the kingdom of Menelaus.

Crap!!!!

I liked your video. People complaining just don’t like that you ruined the movie 300 😂

My suggestion is to try to tone it down and reduce the drama and the self promotion. If you really want to educate, then teach… not try to enthrall.

I love the illustrations, did you make them?

also, this guy is probably persian and salty that his ancestors got the shit kicked out of them by a few greek dudes. sucks to suck

dude you're a gigantic fag. I can't stand your voice, nothing you say sounds credible bc you just sound like a millennial hipster snowflake. you try too hard to sound like you know what you're talking about but you just sound like gonorrhea. TL;DR didn't finish video bc snowflakes

hahahah i can almost smell all the hurt spartin fanboys