Warrior18
Keyboard Warrior
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-Crusaders-Spartans lose hard. In the movie their spears weren't very long. A charge by even the earliest crusader heavy mailed knights could ride them down. Never mind the infantry and crossbow bolts...............
-Medieval European army (England, France, etc) from the late middle ages, no artillery (cannons were used as early as the Hundred Years' War)-Spartans movie and historical get decimated. English longbowmen and anyone with a good crossbow have a field day.
-medieval Japanese army-Spartans lose again. Later weapons and armour count heavily against them.Samurai archers could simply pick them off.
-The Romans-Guess you mean Rome after 27BC? The age of the emperors?Romans win against both movie and historical ones. Roman pila would be thrown and could very likely pierce Spartan shields. If not the ingenious design of the pila would mean it embeds in the shields rendering them unmanageable. Then its just the sheildless Spartans v oncoming meat grinder of gladius, legionnaire and large shield. Interestingly the Romans couldn't win the way they did at Pydna against Macedon, by attacking the flanks of the immobile phalanx. This is because of the fact that in the movie at least the Greeks were defending a narrow gap thus making it impossible to flank them.
-Carthaginians- Guess you mean Carthaginians under Hannibal? Here we had an incredibly versatile and well mixed army under the command of one of the greatest if not the greatest commander in human history. I'm sure he could use his tremendously flexible army and incredible genius to unpick the Spartans both fictional and historic.
-Sumerians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Canaanites, Phoenicians or other Mideast peoples-Sumerians were very very ancient. Four wheeled chariots pulled by asses(donkeys) lol. Spartans both real and fictional would kill them. Canaanites and their contemporary Pheonecians (they too were basically Canaanite) would get owned as well.
The Babylonians (those around Nebuchadnezzar II's time) and Neo-Assyrians however would give a good fight. Both these peoples for their time were the top dogs militarily in the near east. Though they were around before the said Spartans heyday.
-Ancient Chinese-No idea. China has a vast history and there were so many different kingdoms throughout their history. Impossible to say without specification. Though historically the Chinese have always had a deserved rep for being very sound militarily.
-Elamites- Again same as the Canaanites. Too ancient. They were a not too powerful bronze age kingdom I think.Why them? They were crap lol.
-Ancient Egyptians-By this you must mean New Kingdom Egypt. Although at their comparative best only during the Bronze Age, they were still a relatively advanced Empire when it came to war. They would not be able to match Spartan infantry however their powerful composite bows fired from very fast chariots would give them range and mobility, but that is it. Could they wither the outnumbered Spartans with arrows? Real life Spartans at Thermopylae had about 60 pound of armour on. Film version had none lol.
-Israelites/Hebrews- Same as Canaanites.
-Ancient India-Same as China. Vast history with so many different kingdoms, empires and armies. Need to be more specific. Though king Porus did give Alexander the Great and his (far superior to any Spartan army) Macedonians a run for his money at Hydaspes in 325BC.Though there were other factors at work too during that battle.
-Vikings-No idea.Don't know much about them. I guess you mean old school stereotypical Viking raiders.Though probably said Spartans due to sheer organization. Vikings earned their rep during the so called 'Dark Ages' plundering the shores of England then eventually invading and settling. Overated in my opinion.
-Celts- Large history with so many kingdoms and peoples. Though still Spartans through organisation.
-Saracens/Arabs, such as from the era of the Crusades-Again on the whole they would utterly own the Spartans. Later weapons and tactics for the win. Though you could be more specific. The dynasties that fought the crusaders were the Fatimids, Ayyubids, Mamelukes and assorted Turkish groups(Seljuks, Atabegs etc). Only the Fatimids were an Arab dynasty. The Ayyubids were Kurds and their armies made up of various peoples from the near Islamic world, particularly Turkic peoples under the mameluke military system as well as arabs. The Mamelukes of Egypt were those very same Turkic military elites only this time they launched a coup and came to power. The armies were the same as the Ayyubids, the mameluke military system as the back bone.
-Medieval Turks- Seljuks, Great Seljuks, Oghuz Turks?Again broad people with many definitions. For the record they get the win against the spartans.