Civilizations terrified the world

There were many civilizations in the history of the world, but in this article I will talk about the most prosperous and terrifying ancient civilizations in history, from bad to worse.

10- The Spartans

- The family in Sparta was completely different from the rest of the Greek families in the ancient cities, so the word "Sparta" was a description of the meaning of "simplicity and selflessness". The children in Sparta were children of the state more than they were children of their parents, so they were raised to be soldiers of Sparta, and they would train On psychological discipline, and courage.

The upbringing of the Spartan army was different to the greatest extent, for training and training were dependent on the strong citizen since his childhood, there was no place for the weak or those with special needs, for these unfortunate children were subjected to infanticide by their families to make room for healthy male children for the army schools that They are raised by a purely military upbringing during which they are isolated from society for years and then return to it again after completing their training and full preparedness for war, and as a natural result the intellectual, social, and even sexual anomaly prevailed among this group due to isolationism, the hardship of life, and the non-social or even human pattern of development, but all of these The phenomena strengthened the power of the army, and it was an army at the highest level compared to all the Greek states.

- But the most prominent military heroics of Sparta came during the Persian - Greek war in the fifth century BC, when the king of Sparta, "Leonides", at the head of a force of three hundred Spartans, with the support of some other Greek units, managed to hold out in the pass of "Thermopoly" and disrupt the advance of the armies of the Persian king "Xerxes" For long days, Leonids and his companions perished, but not before they gave the rest of the Greek states the opportunity to bloc to defeat the Persian invasion later on.

9- The Maoris

Maori (Māori) are the indigenous people of New Zealand and the Cook Islands. Their ancestors, the Polynesians, came to New Zealand between the years 800 and 1300, and they gained their bad reputations for speaking to all the unwelcome guests until the 18th century. They were known to practice cannibalism during wars. To avenge the mistreatment of the son of their leader, they killed 66 of its passengers and carried the living and the dead to the shore to eat, only the glands of the survivors managed to hide inside the boat in a state of terror as they watched the Maori eat their comrades all night, until the next morning.

- And they believed that eating the meat and members of their enemies increases their strength and improves their fighting skills.

8- The Viking

- The Vikings are a people known for their sea rides and piracy, and they appeared and dominated northern Europe in the Middle Ages, and they toured the Atlantic Ocean, and arrived in America before Christopher Columbus reached it, and they lived specifically in Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Denmark) and from there they invaded parts From England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Russia, and Spain. And their ships reached the islands of Greenland and Iceland.

- The Vikings were ruthless and cruel in their wars, they stirred terror in Europe, they burned everything they did not take or plunder, and in their wars they were very keen on seizing horses, then cattle, as well as valuables made of gold and silver, which are often found in churches and monasteries. This explains to us their continuous invasion of those churches and monasteries in Ireland, Scotland and in other countries, and their wars and conquests were characterized by speed and the element of surprise helped them in that the lightness and speed of their ships.

7- Comanche (Apache Tribes)

The Apache is a group of American Indian tribes indigenous to North America. Their language is the southern language of Athabascan, and a modern definition of them excludes the closely related Navoya people. They attacked the Maya and Toltec civilizations, and they resisted the Spanish in the early 16th century when they invaded Mexico. And the word (Abash) in Spanish means low. The Abas used to hunt wild buffaloes and horses, by way of stalking, stalking and pouncing. They danced the war dance with drums and painted their bodies red. They were marching for war with the sound of the crowd made of the horn of a buffalo

- They used primitive weapons made of bones and stones and they confronted the colonialists, so they terrorized the southern Arabs of the United States, with their martial arts and their desperation in battles, and they were among the greatest fighters with a knife at all, as if they were real ninja fighters.

6- Roman Empire

The Roman Empire included what we consider to be most of Western Europe, and that empire grew thanks to the Roman army. 500 years of republican rule for Rome (510 BC - 1st century BC) that had been weakened by the conflict between Gaius Marius and Sulla and the civil war of Julius Caesar against Pompey.

5- Nazi Germany

- Nazi Germany, or the German Reich, which is the name it has been called by since the year 1871. But in 1943, the Nazi government changed the name to the Greater German Reich, Großdeutsches Reich, which remained in use until 1945 when Germany defeated Nazism.

Nazi Germany was the period in which Germany was ruled by the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi Party) led by Adolf Hitler from 1933 to 1945.

- Although that civilization was for a very short period, it has become a great power, and affected the world with its impact greatly, and because of it was the worst war in human history, which is the Second World War, and at least 4,000,000 people were killed in the famous Holocaust to exterminate the Jews. .

4- The Mongols

The largest empire as a bloc, the second largest in history in terms of area after the British Empire, and the greatest horror in the history of Eurasia. It was the product of the unification of the Mongol and Turkic tribes in what is now called Mongolia, so it began with Temujin (Genghis Khan), who declared its ruler in 1206, and was the precursor to the invasions that reached their maximum extent in 1405 from the Danube Basin to the Sea of ​​Japan, and from Veliky Novgorod near the Russian-Finnish border to Cambodia Where the peoples ruled the approximate population of 100 million people, and an area of ​​land that is 22% of the land area.

The Mughal Empire almost ended after the Battle of Ain Jalut, when the Mongols led by Qutuz were defeated and their empire dispersed.

3- Soviet Union

- The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is a former communist constitutional state whose borders included most of the area of ​​Eurasia between 1922 and 1991, and the Soviet empire included the regions of North Asia (Russia), Eastern Europe and regions of Central Asia between 1922 and 1991 AD, it included several The number of republics before its collapse reached 15, of which Russia was the largest, and the one party ruling was the Soviet Communist Party. From 1945 until its collapse in 1991, it was the world's superpower.

2-The Celts - The Celts

- The Celts are primitive tribes that settled in 700 BC in separate parts of central and northwestern Europe, and they had dealings with other cultures that they occupied their lands, and despite the absence of a written record of this people, they had a great reputation for hunting heads, so they were They were famous for placing the heads of their victims on their boats and in front of their homes, as well as beheading their enemies and hanging them from the necks of their horses.

1- The Aztec Empire - The Aztecs

The Aztec Empire was the Native American nation that ruled most of what is now Mexico from 1428 until about 1521. The empire represents the highest point in the development of the rich Aztec civilization that had begun more than a century earlier, and controlled an area extending from the valley Mexico is in central Mexico, east to the Gulf of Mexico, and south to Guatemala. When it was an empire conquered by the Spanish.

- The Aztecs believed that the good and beneficial gods must remain strong to prevent the evil gods from destroying the world. For this reason, they offered human sacrifices to them, and most of them were prisoners of war. They believed that the rain god Tlaluk preferred his child victims.

The sacrifice rituals were on dates they used to calculate according to the stars to determine a special time for each god, and the victim would ascend the top of the pyramid, where the priest would stretch it over the altar stone and pluck the victim's heart and raise it high to the god who is being honored, then put the heart beating in order to roast in the holy fire, and sometimes it was Many victims are killed once. In 1487 AD, Aztec priests killed 80,000 prisoners of war to devote the rebuilding of the Temple of the Sun, the city of Tenochtitlan.

The priests thought that they would obtain the approval of the gods by fasting or wounding themselves, and some of them were running schools for teaching the priesthood and children who would become priests.