Talk:Earth and water

Parallels in other languages
In Vietnamese, the normal word for a "country", e.g. the country of Vietnam, is dat nuoc (I have missed out the diacritics), which literally means "earth and water". Since Vietnam is a long way from either Persia or Greece this is unlikely to be a direct derivation. Does it indicate that there is something basic in the idea that the land fundamentally includes the water (rivers, lakes), that contributes to making it habitable? Itsmejudith 22:59, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Spartan's version of giving earth and water
The article does not mention the historically recorded event of Sparta pushing persian ambassadors into a well, after they demanded earth and water. In the 300 (film) DVD, this fact is said to have happened when Leonidas I was 10 years old. Albmont (talk) 22:18, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Earth and water...you'll find plenty of both down here! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.60.197.159 (talk) 07:34, 13 April 2012 (UTC)


 * We should also include what happened when sparta refused 2001:DF4:3200:1500:4965:1E12:D595:AC2A (talk) 00:11, 15 September 2022 (UTC)

What happened after being thrown in the well
This article talks about persian ambassador being thrown in the well to find earth and water. I want to include what happened after that but someone keeps reverting. Can we debate this? why can't i add that? 2001:DF4:3200:1500:4965:1E12:D595:AC2A (talk) 00:10, 15 September 2022 (UTC)

Result of not surrendering earth and water
I wanted to add a section for what would happen when a nation denied water and earth. Similar to Retaliatory burning of the Palace of Persepolis from Achaemenid destruction of Athens. 2406:3400:313:B310:10F3:5744:C661:8ED8 (talk) 08:29, 16 November 2022 (UTC)