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These were not your typical Greek war of later years.
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This was not one day we'd have a battle and we'd go home.
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This was a campaign that lasted a generation,
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that's how hard it was to conquer Mycenae,
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and then in the second Mycenaean War,
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how hard it was to put down the tremendous rebellion
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that brought about the second Mycenaean War.
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It was a helot rebellion.
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The helots could not have
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succeeded in making this such a hard fight
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had they not been assisted by some of the neighbors of Sparta.
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Argos, you will remember, from the time of Pheidon,