Sparta became a militaristic society because city states at that time had to become good in military matters to be able to defend themselves and able to expand to remain self-sufficient. The Helot rebellion also caused them to ramp up their military standard to be able to control the helots and to protect them from invaders. Sparta was forced to become a self-sustaining society because they would not be able to get any help from other countries. The training of Spartan warriors started when they
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Athens and Sparta were two of the most prominent city-states in Ancient Greece. Athens was distinguished as the center of wisdom and learning and Athenians were interested mostly in arts‚ music‚ and intellectual pursuits; however‚ Sparta was recognized for its military strength. The lives of the Spartans were dominated by the military‚ considered harsh‚ and focused on the physical development and assembling of adequate warriors who were capable of implementing the tactics needed to be used during
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Spartans Didn’t Paint on Abs Zander Hayes HY 105 300 is a film about the Battle of Thermopylae. Dictated by a Spartan soldier‚ Dilios‚ the film begins by telling the story of King Leonidas’ childhood. The story skips ahead to his kingship‚ where messengers from the Persian godking Xerxes threaten the Spartans and demand their surrender. Leonidas refuses‚ and attempts to take the Spartan army to meet Xerxes’ forces. However‚ the senate den
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There were three social classes in Sparta and four in Athens. Spartan classes were the Spartiates‚ perioeci‚ and helots. The Spartiates were native Spartans with political rights and served in the army. The perioeci were foreigners who carried out most of the trade in Sparta. Helots were slaves who came from the lands that the Spartans had conquered (Sparta.net). These helots were generally treated better than other Greek slaves; they kept a portion of the crops they farmed‚ lived as a family‚ could
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‘Comparing Athens and Sparta is like comparing Heaven and Hell’ The two rivals of ancient Greece that made the most noise and gave us the most traditions were Athens and Sparta. They were close together on a map‚ yet far apart in what they valued and how they lived their lives. Athens and Sparta were different in many different ways and were very much like Heaven and Hell. One of the main ways they were similar was in their form of government. Both Athens and Sparta had an Assembly‚ whose
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From the beginning of Sparta‚ in 900 BC‚ until their fall‚ in 192 BC‚ they were the superior fighting warriors across the Mediterranean sea and in the European vicinity. The spartans were the strongest‚ most fierce‚ and most feared people in Europe at the time with a highly militarized lifestyle and society. The spartans were the ultimate “super soldiers” of their time‚ the reason for this being‚ from the age of 7 all boys were required to go to military training at the Agoge and train there until
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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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city-state of Sparta. Very few city-states of ancient Greece were able to rival the Spartan people. Their unique government‚ social structure‚ and way of life made them a viable force in the ancient world. It is for these reasons that Sparta has gone down in history as one of the most uniquely structured powers in world history‚ one that is observed by modern intellectuals and politicians‚ being used as a model for present day militaries and governments. One of the major characteristics of Sparta that made
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EXPLAIN WHAT THE MARRIAGE CUSTOMS REVEAL ABOUT ATTITUDES TOWARDS WOMEN IN SPARTA The marriage customs of Ancient Sparta reveal a great amount of information about the attitudes towards women. The attitudes towards women in Sparta played a big role in distinguishing Sparta from the other city-states of Greece. Ancient Sparta was set in the time period when men ruled women‚ which is a great point as Spartan women had the most rights and they were the closest to ‘equal’ with men in Greece. Men treated
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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 region
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