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>Spartans were trained from childhood to be soldiers
Spartans were not "soldiers," but yes, boys were trained from age 7 expected to become combatants, but the majority of their training was in other disciplines. It was never 100% RAH RAH WAR. This is not substantially different from the citizens of any other Greek city-state, however. Spartans would not have other professions, but this was common enough with the fighting men other cities as well, as the citizenry only made up a minority of the free male population (with a temporary exception for Athens and a few other Ionian states).

>and every free man was a soldier first.
The majority of the free male population of Lacedaemonia were not Spartan citizens, but of a class known as perioikoi (which included the sons of Spartan men who did not want to deal with, or could not meet the obligations of citizenship). And again, there were no actual soldiers in the Greek world until the Hellenistic era (unless you count mercenaries, which still doesn't fit the definition 100%).

>Other city states’ armies were mostly made of of guys who just had regular jobs and took up arms when they had to
See response to point number one.

>eastern armies were mostly slaves forced to fight.
You're probably talking about Persia. The first Achaemenid monarch, Cyrus, explicitly banned slavery within the empire.

The comic and film 300 has been a disaster for historical understanding.

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