Greece

I read about how the Greeks artisan skills are still being used today and how the Greeks how a strong military thanks to Sparta. Sparta was its own city-state. They lived pretty close but also pretty far from Athens. They had a really strong military power because they would train young boys at the age of 8 to fight and to kill, and once they reached 21 they has a final test and that was to kill an animal in a one on one with a sword, and if they did that then they were officially a Spartan and if that boy was to die then he would be a disgrace to his family but very few died like 1/20 died. If you became a Spartan you were officially a man. You were responsible for defending Greece and Sparta. The Spartans would wear a red rode with body armor on top of that. The red was for this reason if a Spartan was to die in war the enemy could not see Spartan blood. The Spartans were very skilled people they believed in fight face to face and not arrows because that means your a coward and its like a cheap kill. Only the Athenians and other Greeks used arrows. All Greek armies including the Spartans fight for land when the Persians came and conquer us for awhile and then the Greeks fought back. We beat them in the sea and by land. The Persians out numbered the Spartans and killed them at Thermopylae, but the Spartans were holding them and killing as many men as long as they could until they died by arrows. After they died they went to kill the other Greek army, but they failed the Athenians a few Spartans and other Greeks pushed the Persians and killing and pushing them back into there land a broke the bridge from Greece to there land. The Greeks once believed in these made up Gods but now they are Christians or followers of Christ. And I myself am a Greek Orthodox Christian.