How to Raise a Spartan Army DOCUMENTARY
Learn how to raise a Spartan Army for war Thank you Warpath for sponsoring the video Click and download their game from join the Air Force and support my channel Use the code AIRFORCE2021 to get a free ingame bonus worth 10 This video comes as a culmination of previous Units of History episodes on individual elements of the Spartan Army like the Spartan Royal Guard and the Spartan Skiritai. In this history documentary we bring it all together to see how all these forces came together. We cover this in the mechanical process from making the initial decision to go to war to the mustering and deployment of troops in battle. We begin by looking at the reasons why Sparta might go to war in the first place. This can best be understood according to two main time periods of Spartan history, the archaic and the classical period. The former saw Sparta engage in direct conquest against its neighbors while the latter saw Sparta expand through
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