Thermopylae and 300 Spartans meet The Last Samurai and Shogun

<p>🔥 The Battle of Thermopylae took place in 480 BC, probably the first week of September.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>* What connects a 19th century Japanese battlefield with a narrow Greek pass in 480 BC?</p><p><br></p><p>* How did Sparta treat those who didn't fight?</p><p><br></p><p>* Can a society make an elite fighter without breaking the human being inside the armour?</p><p><br></p><p>* And how did two cultures on opposite sides of the earth build almost identical codes of honour?</p>