To face a more powerful common enemy
Athens was enemies with Sparta and Sparta was enemies with Athens
Sparta full-time. Athens part-time.
Sparta because they did not have as much freedom as Athens.
They were very separated by the mountainous land, but in the Battle of Salamis Sparta and Athens united to take down the Persians.
Athena
Athens had a democracy; Sparta, an oligarchy.
Athens and Sparta were independent City-States and therefore were not especially close. However, the Greeks did unite to repel foreign invasions. One of the reasons that Sparta and Athens went to war (The peloponnesian war), was because after the city of Athens was destroyed by Persian invaders, the Athenians stole large sums of money from the Delian League to rebuild their city (and also some of their most famous modern wonders, such as the Parthenon), which was a national treasury set up by the primary City-States of Greece. This action enraged the Spartans in particular, and caused the war.
daa Sparta brought the soldiers ndd the Athens brought theirr navy (:
they had different forms of government, Sparta had oligarchy while Athens had democracy. in Athens, you became a man when you turned 18, in Sparta you had to be 30. for money Athens had drachmas and Sparta had obols.
Athens's finnancial differences from Sparta were that Sparta had alot more gold and Athens had alot more credit.
Sparta