Comments by "seneca983" (@seneca983) on "Chinese Battles be like" video.

@guccifer764 "Thinking that recruiting the helots was ever a viable option shows a grave misunderstanding of the entirety of Spartan society." At least Herodotus mentions Helots being used as troops in the battles of Thermopylae and Plataea. Maybe you have misunderstood the Spartan society?
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@guccifer764 "The idea that the Spartan’s could’ve just quadrupled the size of the army by recruiting Helots like the original commenter stated is pure lunacy." OK, I can understand objecting to that. I had interpreted your comment as meaning that using any Helot troops could not have occurred. I would still like to point out that besides Helots the Spartans also raised some Perioikoi troops.
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