Sparta’s government is better than Athens government because sparta had better leadership and organization of government. Sparta had an oligarchy government. Sparta had a system of leadership. Sparta was a strong military state and Athens . Sparta has an oligarchy government. An oligarchy government means that only a small group of people are leading the group and making decisions. Athens has a democracy. Democracy means that the people rule the country. Democracies are bad because then everybody
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POLITICAL DIFFERENCES OF SPARTA AND ATHENS Athens and Sparta were two of the most powerful and well known cities among all the Greek nations. Most would find it easier to find more similarities among these two groups of mighty people. But there are some differences between these two power houses. For instance the way that these cities were governed and their political procedures and functions were quite different from each other. One major difference between the two cities was
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SPARTA THE LAND OF WARRIORS The Spartan City State formed what is probably the most intense military in ancient history. The ancient Spartan warriors are known for their bravery‚ and skill. At their peak they proved themselves to be the best of the Greek warriors‚ the best fighting force of their time. Spartan fitness was very important even at birth‚ according to History.com (8 Reasons It Wasn’t Easy Being Spartan) “All Spartan infants were brought before a council of inspectors and examined
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Athens vs. Sparta Essay During Ancient Times‚ many civilizations emerged from darkness and became powers in a world so small that half of it hadn’t been discovered. One of these famed civilizations was the Greek Civilization. The Greek Civilization was divided into cities known as Poleis that had their own government and culture. Sparta and Athens‚ the two most important Greek city states‚ were different in government‚ society and daily life. During the Greek Civilization‚ two forms of governments
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Compare and contrast the city-states of Athens and Sparta politically and culturally In ancient times‚ Greece was not a united country but rather a collection of separate city-states that were in some cases similar‚ in other cases different politically and culturally. The two most famous‚ powerful and influential city-states of that period were Athens and Sparta. Although Athens and Sparta had some cultural comparisons such as both were polytheistic societies sharing similar religious beliefs‚ their
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I have often wondered why no one has done a story on high tech small business growth in Athens. We have‚ Coraid‚ Digital Insight - now a division of Intuit‚ Partners software‚ Deal Mobs‚ Orderite (touchblock is the tradename ) are all companies that have started in Athens. These are simply the names of businesses that I have heard about through people that I have met in my restaurant. Coraid is the biggest and fastest growing company. They are leasing the top floor and a half of the Fred Building
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attitudes in Greek philosophy towards Athens and Sparta‚ as well as sympathies and actions comparable to those of Plato‚ can also be seen in the Twentieth Century. Henry Kissinger‚ President Nixon’s foreign policy adviser and later Secretary of State‚ is supposed to have remarked once‚ privately‚ that the United States was liable to lose the Cold War to the Soviet Union in the same way and for the same reasons that Athens lost the Peloponnesian War to Sparta. While America‚ presumably‚ was enervated
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and warfare. Two powerhouses of Ancient Greece were the cities of Athens and Sparta‚ who led Greece in many of their endevours. Early Sparta and Athens was a building process with many ups and down of which they learnt how to run their cities. Early Sparta did not have enough land to support it’s growing population‚ so they conquered the neighbouring state of Messinia and doubled the amount of land that they had control of. Sparta then experienced a period of great wealth and power in the Greek
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century BC Greece was about 1500 scattered small cities around the Mediterranean and Black sea shores. Each city had different forms of government‚ rulers in its history which ranges from democracy to monarchies and oligarchies. By around 730 BCE‚ Sparta had conquered the neighboring city-state of Messenia in the south-west corner of the Peloponnesus. The government was like monarchy/ tyranny‚ where one sole ruler had taken the power in hand by force. Helots were treated as public slaves‚ forced to
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Greece a country united by its name‚ but divided by its ways. Although Sparta and Athens were both Greek cities‚ their societies were different. Sparta was focused on having a perfect military‚ whereas Athenian daily life revolved learning and knowledge. When Spartan boys were being trained for an army‚ Athenian boys were being trained for life. Sparta was a city-state based on strict military ruling. Lives of Spartans revolved around military. The education given was meant to create Spartans into
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