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The fictional "Unsullied" from the George Martin books had to have been based on the Spartans. (except the Greeks got to retain their genitals)
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Spartans given that it was part of their social construction.
Competition literally started from the moment you were born. Formation and toughness from a very early age.
The fictional "Unsullied" from the George Martin books had to have been based on the Spartans. (except the Greeks got to retain their genitals)
The Unsullied are clearly based on the Egyptian Muslim slave soldiers called Mamluks, or the Jannisaries, both of whom chose male Christian slaves as children to be raised to be Muslim warriors.
The Turks also practiced castration, it was basically impossible to rise to a high level of office in the Sultanate if the guy was intact, they were not allowed in most parts of the palace, eunuchs were, so they essentially became the bureaucratic leaders of the Ottomon empire. Soldiers weren't cut through, Martin simply changed the story a bit and made them so.