"Spartan women owned most of the land and wealth in Sparta."
"Spartans were so rich that nobody had to work."
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"Russia ran out of vodka when celebrating the end of World War II."
"Charles Darwin invented his own wheeled office chair."
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"In medieval England, the word “ask” was pronounced, “axe.”"
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"Ferrets, dogs, and monkeys were the most popular pets in the Roman Empire."
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"Before Julius Caesar invaded Britain, many Romans didn’t believe it existed."
"Cleopatra was the first member of her dynasty to speak Ancient Egyptian."
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Helots weren't Spartans. By you own admission they had other people do the work for them thus they didn't have to work
we call b.s. with a facepalm
The celebrated Middle English writer Geoffrey Chaucer, who penned The Canterbury Tales and is often called the father of English literature, used the word this way; so did the Coverdale Bible, which was the first-ever English incarnation of the Bible. When this was published in 1535, the Bible instructed the pious to axe and it shall be given you. The president of the American Dialect Society says that ax is not a new thing; it is not a mistake. It is a feature of regular English.
I worked with a woman many years ago who pronounced cusp as cups. Axe is a mistake. It’s just a coincidence that people said axe hundreds of years ago.
It's because it was "clever." There are the omnipresent trolls here to downvote clever comments, as they hate being reminded of how dim-witted they are.
#2 this is bs. Most of the people in Sparta where slaves who did, in fact, work. The only ones who 'didn't work' where the soldiers. Spartans also thought luxury would weaken them, so wealth in this sense wasn't even allowed.