300 movie review

Many years ago, approximately 2500 years, there lived a group of people called the Spartans. A Spartan is a person from the Greek city of Sparta or the ancient Greek state of the same name (Connolly, pg 39). These people are part of the ancient Western Civilization and they are composed of the strongest most victorious warriors/soldiers of all time. Things were different back in those days but the Spartans had a vivid understanding that only the strongest survived. This allowed them to be the best of the best, although they had really rough training to remain the best of the best. This writing will give a basic outline of the Spartans during this era and show how the movie 300 relates to history. Spartans were bread to be good soldiers. Upon a male birth, its life was determined to be a solider or to end as a baby. If this child was born with any problems or weaknesses while being inspected it would be thrown over a cliff, ending its life. A child that lived through its first examination would be raised by its mother until the age of seven. At this time in the child’s life, it would be taken from its mother and grouped together in a “pack”. The packs would be sent to a military type boot camp known as the Agoge (Connolly, pg 39). This is where the boys became stronger with their survival skills and wiser with more responsibilities. This was no daycare, it was a boot camp. These boys are being trained by soldiers to never back down, be very competitive, and fight (Connolly, pg. 38). They received whippings as a way to prove their toughness. They were still green, but this was just the beginning to their future of training. At the age of twelve, the boy is classes as a youth. The youth’s physical education is intensified, discipline became harsh, and they were loaded with extra tasks. Youths have to go barefoot and only dressed in tunic (underwear) both winter and summer (Connolly, pg 39). Their training never ended, the fighting continued, and they would be

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