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> their whole society participated in the war effort Right, and this is untrue of Sparta.

• vasco 3y ago
  I probably don't know enough about Sparta then. From what I thought I knew before your comments, I learned that they took the "teach kids to be fighters" to the extreme and they had the longest "education" period of any city states around them, mostly focused on skills for battle. Supposedly the old men were involved in this education, the kids were training, the men were fighting, and the women were supporting all of this. So that's what I was basing the thought of this type of society probably making it less likely that you have a bunch of scribes or other types of jobs being done that would be more likely to leave stuff written down.
  • adamnaga 3y ago
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  • morelisp 3y ago
    Congratulations! You are a total victim of this Spartan myth that the article author has often debunked.
  • _Tev 3y ago
    Problem is, they taught only citizen kids to be fighters (skipping over what did they actually teach). When 80%+ of your society is not-citizens, then this has little relation to what the society is actually focused on.