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President Yoon said at the time that the country will “operate a pan-national task force to overcome the low birthrate issues,” speaking of the ancient Spartan empire which he said went ...

The doomed stand of 300 Spartan warriors against the Persian Empire at Thermopylae in 480 B.C.E.—the subject of Zack Snyder’s ...

The Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC) is one of the most famous last stands in history. However, the Spartans did not march to ...

Are you wondering if Dwayne Johnson and Henry Cavill‘s 300 3 trailer that is making the rounds online is real? A mysterious ...

Sparta and Athens fought a long war ... In the end, the Greeks led by Alexander the Great defeated the Persian Empire in the 330sBC. In battle, hoplites fought as a team. They lined up in ranks ...

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However, Sparta's dominance was not to last ... The destiny of Greece would thereafter become inseparable with the empire of Philip's son: Alexander the Great.

And the Roman Empire, the Roman Senate ... Roman movies, of gladiators and Julius Caesar and Sparta, even going back to Greece, all of those harken to a mythology that’s based in a reality ...

This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Sparta’s enemies, when facing the intimidating Spartan forces, would see a wall of shields ...