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What Made the Spartans Such Fierce Warriors?
BBC ^
| 01 SEPTEMBER 2022
Posted on 09/02/2022 6:36:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Sparta is a warrior society in ancient Greece known for its harsh military training. Classicist Dr. Michael Scott travels across Greece to experience Spartan food and clothes to discover the best warriors' secrets to fitness.
Video at the site.
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TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: crypteia; greece; homosexualagenda; krupteia; krypteia; pederasts; pederasty; pedophiles; pedophilia; policestate; slavery; spartans
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
09/02/2022 6:38:27 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: nickcarraway
They were gay pedophiles.
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posted on
09/02/2022 6:45:05 PM PDT
by
Deepeasttx
( Sensitivity/diversity training, along with CRT are all un-walled reeducation camps....for now.)
To: nickcarraway
Spartans hated commies. 
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posted on
09/02/2022 6:50:16 PM PDT
by
broken_clock
(Go Trump! Still praying.)
To: nickcarraway
Sparty!
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posted on
09/02/2022 6:50:53 PM PDT
by
Dr. Franklin
("A republic, if you can keep it." )
To: nickcarraway
That "black broth" the Spartans ate sounds sort of like Mexican chorizo from the way it's made, although the Spartans didn't have chile peppers.
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posted on
09/02/2022 6:51:30 PM PDT
by
Fiji Hill
To: Fiji Hill
Because chile peppers were only in the new world at that point.
To: Fiji Hill
The Greeks would joke:”Anyone being forced to eat that black bean soup would look forward to dying on the battlefield”
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posted on
09/02/2022 6:59:55 PM PDT
by
Fido969
(45 is Superman! )
To: nickcarraway
The Spartans got nothin on our woke military.
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posted on
09/02/2022 7:01:19 PM PDT
by
HighSierra5
(The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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posted on
09/02/2022 7:01:43 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
09/02/2022 7:06:12 PM PDT
by
Chainmail
(Harrassment, to be effective, must be continuous.)
To: nickcarraway
To: nickcarraway
"What Made the Spartans Such Fierce Warriors?"
Other people trying to wipe them off the face of the map.
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posted on
09/02/2022 7:25:57 PM PDT
by
mass55th
("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
To: nickcarraway
Honor. The first known to choose death before dishonor.
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posted on
09/02/2022 7:35:53 PM PDT
by
AlaskaErik
(In time of peace, prepare for war.)
To: nickcarraway; BenLurkin; Red Badger
They were afraid somebody thought they graduated from The Other Ohio State school?
Were members of the Nebraska Sooners?
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posted on
09/02/2022 7:50:23 PM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
To: nickcarraway
it wasnt the food
it was survival of the fittest
males were raised by the army
if you survived the training
you were fierce
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posted on
09/02/2022 7:51:53 PM PDT
by
joshua c
(to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
To: Deepeasttx; nickcarraway
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posted on
09/02/2022 9:39:29 PM PDT
by
oldvirginian
(There ain't no Coupe DeVille hiding at the bottom of a Cracker Jack box )
To: nickcarraway
They were basically gay Nazis. None of us would have tolerated the Spartan view of freedom. It might have been a bit attractive to today’s leftists.
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posted on
09/03/2022 6:25:59 AM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
(Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
To: Romans Nine
They weren’t getting any...
To: refermech
That would do it. Strong motivator. Has literally toppled countries and changed the course of human events.
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