Micro > AMAZING culture some couple thousand years ago though...
They must not have had girly men running their society back then.
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No,
the ancients of Greece were most assuredly not girly men.
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Thermopylae
http://www.ancient.eu/thermopylae/
Thermopylae is a mountain pass near the sea in northern Greece which was the site of several battles in antiquity, the most famous being that between Persians and Greeks in August 480 BCE. Despite being greatly inferior in numbers, the Greeks held the narrow pass for three days with Spartan King Leonidas fighting a last-ditch defence with a small force of Spartans and other Greek hoplites. Ultimately the Persians took control of the pass, but the heroic defeat of Leonidas would assume legendary proportions for later generations of Greeks, and within a year the Persian invasion would be repulsed at the battles of Salamis and Plataea.
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Hey ZZ,
How's this for some ancient history.
Zim.
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