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The Battle of Thermopylae - The Hellenic Alliance - Part 1 - Extra History

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📜 The Battle of Thermopylae, Part 2: A small handful of Grecian city-states have come together to stand off against the invading Persians at Thermopylae. At this fateful mountain pass, Greece will discover its identity as a nation.

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20 Comments

@extrahistory Creator 8 years ago Pinned

The Battle of Thermopylae is one of the most significant events in the ancient world—and also one of the least understood.
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@sananaryon4061 8 years ago

Ah, the three hundred. And their 6700 allies

@maxk4324 6 years ago

Me: So wait, one more time, how can you justify slavery?
Sparta: in order to give us the free time to devote our lives to the military
Me: and why do you need to do that?
Sparta: I told you already, because we need to be ready in case of a slave revolt. What, are you slow or something?

@napoleonibonaparte7198 8 years ago

Freedom*

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@JOE-bm9oq 8 years ago

This is one of the few, rare times where somebody has actually depicted Persia realistically and not as the "blood-sucking demons" everybody else has in mind for some reason.

@dreamihad 8 years ago

I love how ' Shut up and pay your taxes ' is such a theme thoughout history

@KingDomo 8 years ago

And Leonidas and his 300 Spartans and other 6 thousand Greek soldiers would fight them in land.

@justafaniv1097 8 years ago

I think there is something wrong with your depiction of Greek bodies...

The Spartans aren’t all topless to show off their abs.

@davididiart5934 8 years ago

Xerxes is too short. Where's my golden 9ft God-man? 0/10.

@NC_Archive1 8 years ago

The Greeks definitely had a joint ethnic identity prior to Thermopylae- the Olympic Games held since 776 BCE which were strict in only allowing those with Greek heritage to participate demonstrate this.

@JustFlemishMe 8 years ago

Actually, from what I was taught at University, the notorious baby-killing may have been done in Archaic times, but it was probably symbolic by the time Persia came knocking. The Spartans did something to commemorate killing babies, or symbolically selected the weak as non-Spartans, but didn't actually kill them.

@njord3582 8 years ago

Why let a few wars get in the way of a good alliance

@pdreding 8 years ago

So in short, 300 is about as historically accurate as Braveheart.

@scaryanarchist1260 8 years ago

8:39

Persian emperor: I am your king!
Greeks: I didn't vote for you.
Greeks: We are an anarcho-syndicalist commune.

@faradayfilms3176 8 years ago (edited)

Don't let this video distract you from the fact that we still haven't gotten a Cyrus the Great video

(That comment was mostly a joke I love this series)

@jorgelotr3752 6 years ago (edited)

I find it weird that you depict ancient greecians as darker skinned than persians. As far as I know, they were a mixture of the remnants of ancient Myceneans with outside people that came from the north (leaving their pantheon as a curious mixture of Mycenean gods with northern gods that consolidated and became its own thing).

@diomedes4246 8 years ago

The theatre at Korinth is wrong. Greeks at that time did not have a scene. It was also built into the mountain not from the bottom up. That is a roman theatre.

@Arianod1973 8 years ago

7:09 Uhhh... The Achemenid empire did have slaves, though: they enslaved rebels and prisoners of war. What you guys probably mean is that they didn't have a slave based economy and slaves were a very small part of the population (especially compared to the Greek city-states)