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<blockquote data-quote="Helldritch" data-source="post: 8089022" data-attributes="member: 6855114">Sparta lost to the Romans because Romans were way more numerous than them. The Greek impressed the Romans so much (via Spartans) that they adopted their gods and cultures.Call the &quot;deadly contest&quot; the way you want, the result were the same. And yes they were not the only ones. The Akkadians were rumored to do the same thing as were the Babylonians.For the last part you're right. There are some example of humans taking care of the injured and deformed. I never said that (deadly contest and weeding out the week) this was systematic. It is only in modern/enlightment society that helping the injured and deformed became systematic (and that is a good thing). Neanderthal were particularly good at that from recent digs. As long as they could still do some chores to help the tribe they would be cared for.And calling me ignorant about history and archeology is blunt and shows your arrogance and self entitlement. I live with an historian (my wife) and she is handicaped (muscular dystrophia). I have a Bachelor's degree at a university and one of my pet peeve is exactly history and archeology (and quantum physics. Go figure...). For long time, my wife was sure that I was a student in archeology and history because I was attending some of her classes and I was discussing medieval society with her teachers (I was not registered, I just had the permission to attend because I happened to knew the sons of one of her teacher). So nope, I am far from being ignorant.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Helldritch, post: 8089022, member: 6855114"] Sparta lost to the Romans because Romans were way more numerous than them. The Greek impressed the Romans so much (via Spartans) that they adopted their gods and cultures. Call the "deadly contest" the way you want, the result were the same. And yes they were not the only ones. The Akkadians were rumored to do the same thing as were the Babylonians. For the last part you're right. There are some example of humans taking care of the injured and deformed. I never said that (deadly contest and weeding out the week) this was systematic. It is only in modern/enlightment society that helping the injured and deformed became systematic (and that is a good thing). Neanderthal were particularly good at that from recent digs. As long as they could still do some chores to help the tribe they would be cared for. And calling me ignorant about history and archeology is blunt and shows your arrogance and self entitlement. I live with an historian (my wife) and she is handicaped (muscular dystrophia). I have a Bachelor's degree at a university and one of my pet peeve is exactly history and archeology (and quantum physics. Go figure...). For long time, my wife was sure that I was a student in archeology and history because I was attending some of her classes and I was discussing medieval society with her teachers (I was not registered, I just had the permission to attend because I happened to knew the sons of one of her teacher). So nope, I am far from being ignorant. [/QUOTE]

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