Sparta Strengths And Weaknesses

Sparta was a strong society physically, but in other aspects they found weakness which leads them to their downfall and short life span. The weaknesses outweigh the strengths because they lack education, force children to leave families at young ages/die, and they are very abusive with unconventional methods.

One reason that Sparta was weak is that they lacked education, learning only basic reading and writing. They also banned all other forms of education including foreign teachers,books,treatises and more because they were not to learn of other ways of living. Evidence of this is in document D in which it states”Learned to read and write for purely practical reasons:but all other forms of education they banned from the country”. This supports
my claim by showing what they lacked. Later on in the document it states “The boys of sparta were lashed with whips the entire day at the altar of Artemis Orthia, frequently to the point of death”.