sparta

What if the Ottomans built a new citadel, and supporting settlement, at the site of ancient Sparta upon the conquest of the Morea in the 1400s? How could this settlement develop over time and what role would it play in the development of Ottoman Greece or in the Ottoman-Venetian wars?

More recently I have encountered here with a hypothesis - Sparta collapsed because of too much free manners women. Usually they say about too increased female greed, indifference to other people's lives. They write that "...matriarchal orders rapidly decompose the emerging new economic order, in...

Achaemenid Triumphant an Alternative History of the Mediterranean World Part 1.01 The Flight From Salamis As the Battle of Thermopylae raged on into its third week of battle, the Allied Greek Armada under Eurybiades was slowly being eroded by the composite fleet of Phoenicians and Ionians...