Athens’s Simplicity & Spartan’s Power During the ages of 800 and 401 BCE‚ Athens and Sparta were very different in many ways‚ but in a couple of ways‚ they were somewhat similar. They both had wealthy aristocrats who controlled their government and who made decisions on what was “best” for their poleis and its people‚ and both used a political legislative system. While the Spartans had the elder council‚ called “Gerousia”‚ the Ephors and the general assembly‚ the Athenians had the legislative
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hegemony (371-362 BC) into external factors including the weakening of Athens after the Peloponnesian war and the growing irrelevance of Sparta as a result of population decline and the inconclusive Corinthian
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The Peloponnesian War is known for the famous struggle between the two dominant Greek city-states‚ Athens and Sparta‚ which lasted over 27 years. In 480 BCE‚ Athens and Sparta defended Greece against the immense invasion of Xerxes. After defeating the Persians‚ Athens started to grow extremely powerful and tensions rose between the city-states‚ causing nearly three decades of war. Sparta remained victorious while Athens was left bankrupt. Neither city-state was able to recuperate the military strength
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Unlike other nations that are unified under one ruler Ancient Greece was separated into a variety of governments that made it function poorly. In 900 B.C.E the Greeks ‘civilization began to emerge. The little towns slowly became cities‚ and the city prospered. Especially in 800 B.C.E when the Greeks created the Greek alphabet (O’Connell 20-21). Ancient Greece has multiple cities that each have its own government system. These cities are known as city-states or polis’ and each city-state acted as
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the best fighter of their era. The Spartan warriors and people of Sparta changed how people lived their everyday life. The culture was military based and the army always came first. The Spartans was the best culture because of their everyday beliefs; military based lifestyle‚ man and women’s fascinating lives‚ the great leader Leonidas‚ and the marriage customs. The Spartan military was the only way of life for most of the Sparta people. A lot of great Spartan battles happened in their history.
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the demise of such a rising star. The ultimate circumstance that I see causing the end of the Golden Age was the growing resentment Sparta had for Athens. As Athens and Sparta went
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Greece. It is about the famous Battle of Thermopylae that mainly involved both the Persians and the Spartans. The Persian army‚ led by a king named Xerxes‚ is in the process of taking over several Hellenic states in Greece. When Xerxes arrives at Sparta to strike a deal with King Leonidas (Spartan Army Leader) that he will have power over all of Greece if he will bow down to King Xerxes‚ Leonidas responds with retaliation against the Persians. King Leonidas assembles 300 of his toughest Spartan soldiers
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Athens was run by democracy‚ whereas‚ Sparta‚ a military state‚ was governed by oligarchy. Athens’ democracy served its people better. Since all had a say in the government and everyone was included in a state was ruled by many. In Sparta‚ the state was controlled by a select few‚ kings and ephors‚ who had absolute power. In Athens plenty of time was spent on architecture‚ to ensure that Athens would forever leave behind a cultural legacy‚ whereas in Sparta it was believed that there was no need
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ancient rulers‚ two are made very memorable. Lycurgus‚ ruler of Sparta‚ and Solon‚ ruler of Athens‚ made significant impacts on their polis that would continue throughout ancient Greek history. The reforms that were created by these rulers can be disputed in regards to their benefit on their city-state. The reforms Solon implemented were more efficacious in producing democratic change in Athens then those reforms that were executed in Sparta by Lycurgus. Due to the fact Solon is a man of middle ground
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“king‚” is warned by messengers from the Persian empire to kneel before Xerxes‚ the Persian god-king‚ or to see his beloved Sparta be destroyed and it’s loyal people be captured as slaves. Leonidas denies these requests as a free man who will kneel to no one. Xerxes‚ seeing this as a threat to his newly established empire‚ wages war against Leonidas his city state of Sparta. As in any story there is a traitor‚ which only complicates Leonidas’ determination of staying a free Greek. Abiding by Spartan
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