The real origin of Spartacus is as doubtful and hidden in the available texts back from an Roman Empire that had slaves and was run by intrigue as if he relly found an end by cruxification.
The movie 300 has as limited historic evidence, but for sure is that the Spartans had been the most respected and most feared, by friend or enemy, Knights of the Antique.
In the movie 300 the Spartans are defending their home town castle against an invading force that came by a huge fleet of ships and their head believed to be a living god amond minors and just like that he comanded his troops sending wave after wave into certain death against a way smaller, but much better trained and motivated Spartan force.
The Spartans proved that classic tactics of formations, as also later used be the Roman Legions, by adjusting the strategy can be successful, yet they died. They sacreficed themselves for all other Greek towns by decimating the alian to Greece force by 1 to a 1000. Since then it says that one Kinght is better than a 1000 Slave Soldiers.
They put the battle ground to the most narrow spot the attackers had to pass limiting the amount of attacks to equal them per wave and pushing the amount of attack direction down to one.
Spartacus broke free out of the Gladiator fights made for both entertainment and scaring the people, as everyone could end up there, and so did the first Christians preaching that we have to help our next and loved once as we'd do for our own profit.
He first moved north, and comprehnsive maps were limited in slave driving Roman terretories, to than turn south again and apperantly was defeated in the most sothern part of Italy that is covered by a midd mountain area in opposite to the steep high mountain Alps.
Spartacus real origin is also under discussion and doubtful.
If he was of Spartan origin, explaining his way superior combat and leadership capabilities, he'd also knew about the real battle that inspired the movie 300.
There is a chance that Spartacus also changed the tactics and used the midd mountain topographie to drive the Roman Legions out of formation driving them into one on one fights, just as trained for years in the Roman Gladiator fights.
Spartacus and his men breaking free might well have been the first Guirillias in history.
And today?
Our world changed in the last two centuries even more than inbetween the Antique and Mid-Ages or from Mid-Ages to Renessaince. The first ended slavery and a one dominating feudal empire in most parts of Europe and the later brought the first human rights and republiques ending prviliges. The first saw major improvements in agriculture and the birth of towns, the second established serial production and world wide trade to a business over an adventure of exploration.
Today, information spread faster than bullets or explosive shock waves; We can move humans over distances in hours instead of weeks and our ability of save planning reaches out to turning five years into standard time frames for companies bigger than ever; We have multiple systems ruling the world competing with each other from Anarchy, Nations, Enterprises to Religious Organisations and find the very same product on places hundreds of miles apart being able to produce items in the millions, if not billions by keeping constant and defined specific levels of quality.
So, why would you do war like Napoleon against Hitler, if your are not even their kids, but those of The Musquetiers and Mr. Barns?
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