Athens vs Sparta All cities around the world have individualized customs and laws to specifically benefit their society. One would assume that two cities within close proximity would share many of these customs. With only 150 miles in between‚ it would be hard to imagine that Athens and Sparta could be so abundant in differences. Yet‚ with the information learned‚ few similarities are exhibited. There are many differences between Spartan and Athenian civilizations with regards to their government
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Athens versus Sparta: A Comparison Athens and Sparta were the two greatest city-states in Ancient Greece. The two cities were both powerful‚ but their beliefs and development were very different. I will compare and contrast Athens and Sparta and finally make a decision on which city would be my favorite. The governments of Sparta and Athens both started as oligarchies. This meant that a few people held power. However‚ Sparta stayed that way and Athens developed into a direct
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living in ancient Athens or ancient Sparta which‚ would you choose? While one stands for democracy‚ the other stands for war. Surely having been raised in America‚ one is more likely to side immediately with the most democratic one. However‚ not everyone was equal in Athens. Also‚ although Sparta was almost entirely focused on war‚ one half of the population was not completely alienated by the other. Athens and Sparta had completely opposite ways of living. Although Sparta and Athens are in the same
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The two Greek city-states of Athens and Sparta were different in many ways. Though they may be geographically similar on the map‚ the two Greek city-states could not be any more different; from the way they run their government to the way they educate their children‚ to their country’s ancestry. These are only some of the way that Athens and Sparta are different. The two city-states are also similar in some ways‚ as well. Both of the city-states had partially elected governments and both strongly
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Socio-Economic and Political Conditions in Sparta and Athens After 800 B.C.E. Ancient Greece was in a pretty bad shape during the period from 1200 to 800 B.C.E‚ which is referred as the Dark Age of the Greece. Eventually‚ after 800 B.C.E‚ Greeks started expanding their empire from the Mediterranean towards east as far as the Black Sea‚ and towards west as far as the Atlantic Ocean. At this time‚ two prominent city- states named Athens and Sparta stood as two pillars in the Greek history. Although
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many years. In the beginning‚ Athens and Sparta had lots of drastic differences in at least three ways. Athens
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Was Sparta a better place than Athens? Spartans is known for its military training while Athens lives in world of luxury. Each state has its own good or bad and you can’t say something is better at everything than another one. First of all‚ children are mistreated in Sparta like going to military training at the age of seven and killing “weak” babies. Who said they didn’t have the potential to become the next Plato. In order to have a pure race Spartans started to kill the babies who look “weak”
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to live in Sparta instead of Athens. To start with‚ in Sparta‚ women had more rights than in Athens. For example‚ in Sparta‚ women had the same simple life as me‚ but they could speak with men outside on their own‚ own property‚ and even marry again if their first husband had been gone for a very long time. Meanwhile‚ in Athens‚ all women did was take care of the household‚ they couldn’t even go outside by themselves! Second‚ the education in Sparta is better. For instance‚ in Athens the purpose
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differences in methods of political control in Sparta and Athens. The methods of political control in Sparta and Athens were different based on their social lives. However‚ they had similarities both Sparta and Athens fighting in the Persian war‚ and in Religion. The Spartan’s and Athens’s had differences on how they lived there social life on treatment of the woman or similar things creating a Union. One difference that the Spartan’s and Athens’s had on methods of political control was their
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