300

I think that the movie 300 is a great example of imperialism. I believe it is an example because the Persians attempting to take over the city of Sparta. The Persians in my opinion are the imperialists because they have conquered and destroyed every nation that tried to stand up to them except Sparta. Xerxes is the leader of the Persian army. The Persian army was of the biggest in the world at the time. They ran through many towns and killed everyone in the towns. Such as in the scene when the spartans were looking for the persians after a extremely big battle. They found a town burning and many dead people hanging from trees or dead bodies on the floor or burned. Women were raped and then hung from a tree. In another scene Xerxes is on his throne that is carried by many slaves. He comes to the spartans and tries to get the spartans to join the persian army and surrender sparta to the persians. obviously the spartans refused because they wanted their independence. Also the scene in the very begining when a messenger comes to sparta to ask them to come peacefully and surrender to the persians and Gerrard butler yells "THIS IS SPARTA!!!" (very famous quote). He then kicks the messenger into a giant hole that they were standing by and has his fellow spartans slaughter the guards for the messenger igniting the war between sparta and the persians.