Steroids VS Ancient Sparta 💉

[0:00]What if you brought steroids to ancient Sparta? You show up with a bag of pills and a needle. Sparta is already the most physically terrifying civilization on Earth. The first Spartan takes one. Nothing happens for three days. Then day four arrives. You give each warrior the recommended dose, one pill. You hold up one finger. None of them take one pill. Two weeks in the training ground is unrecognizable. The city gates get widened, then widened again. The architect asks no questions. Leonidas hears about it on week four. You show him the recommended dose. He takes four while looking at you. You say nothing. Athens sends a formal diplomatic complaint, not about fighting, about the size. The Persian army shows up, 100,000 soldiers. They see the Spartans and spend 40 minutes turning around. For three years, nobody wants to fight Sparta. Every city state requests diplomatic solutions. The pills ran out eventually. The warriors stayed large for a generation. The doorways stayed wide permanently. You still have the last pill. You have had it for two and a half thousand years. But every time you think about taking it, you remember the doorways.