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How did Sparta gain a navy?

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12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

they chopped down wood, sawed it up, and made ships out of it. They lived on a peninsula, so they had plenty of water to sail them in and it helped them out in alot of ways, both with and against Athens

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