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Originally Posted by 47MartialMan

Sometimes the conquerers sprad around the conquered stuff, until it is no longer original. But heck, if it was conquered, then it didnt fair so well in the first place.

Not really true alot of that is based on the size of the opposing force. With the movie 300 there has been this kind of unrealistic vision of the Spartans but, in reality they were still pretty bad ass. My father is from Sparti which is modern day Sparta so we were kind of raised with the whole history of the Spartans shoved down our throats. But for example when Rome conquored Greece (I use the term concour lightly because the political and military power switched from Greece to Rome but, Greece still remained a vital part of the empire and was the second largest language spoke with in the empire after Latin, In fact the Roman empire eventually split in to a west and east empire. The east was Greek controlled from Alexandria and is normally referred to as the Byzantine empire) but, after Rome gained control and made it self the head of the empire they changed their army combative style to the Spartan phalenx.