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because the gods were really mad at the people from Sparta that they decided to kill them all....so the Athens wins
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∙ 11y agoWhen King Xerxes came with his army which numbered around 300,000 men to conquer Greece (Herodotus claimed Xerxes had 5,000,000 men) after his fathers defeat by the Athenians at Marathon and the murder of his envoys by both the Spartans and Athenians (the Spartan king Cleomenes threw the envoys into a pit) Leonidas and the Athenian General Themistocles formed a great alliance to defeat the Persians. The Spartans as the Strongest Polis in Greece was given command of the alliance and intended to hold up the Persians at the Phoenician wall at Thermopylae so that a larger force could be assembled after the Spartan festival of the Carnea.
Leonidas took 7,000 Hoplites, including 300 Spartans, to Thermopylae where they held Xerxes for 3 days before they were out flanked. Meanwhile Themistocles guarded Leonidas' seaward flank fighting a series of costly engagements in the Straits of Artemisium and was finally able to retreat after the death of Leonidas.
The loss of Thermopylae left Athens unprotected and as part of the retreat Themistocles stopped at Athens before Xerxes arrived and evacuated most of the city before it was burned to the ground.
Themistocles later won a great victory at the Battle of Salamis, the Persians lost over 300 ships while the Greeks lost about 40. Despite the Greek victories Xerxes was still gaining ground and was nearing the Isthmus of Corinth and gaining Greek allies including Thebes. Believing that the Greek alliance would not continue much longer Xerxes returned to Persia, leaving about 70,000 men to finish the job but were defeated by a combined Greek army of 40,000 men, including 9000 Spartans and 8000 Athenians under the command of the Spartan general Pausanias at the Battle of Plataea.
The Spartans were viewed as having done the most to defeat the Persians and quickly became the dominant power in Greece which began a bitter rivalry with Athens who believed that they were as much responsible for the victory as Sparta.
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∙ 6y agoSparta led the coalition of southern Greek city-states in defeating the Persian invasion 480-479 BCE.
Then Athens formed the Delian League to protect the 180 Greek city-states within the Persian Empire for the next 20 years until Persia agreed to stay away from those cities.
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What role did Athens and Sparta play in defeating Persians?
Both were in a coalition of southern Greek city-states which defeated a Persian invasion 480-479 BCE. Sparta led the alliance at the start, but it left it to Athens in the second half of the 50-year war in which there were dozens of sea and land battles. After too many losses, the Persians agreed to peace and left the Greek cities to go back to their usual fighting each other.
What role did Athens and Sparta play in the Persian?
because the gods were really mad at the people from Sparta that they decided to kill them all....so the Athens wins
What were woman's lives like in Athens and Sparta?
In Athens they were kept in purdah in the house rearing children and working in the house and garden. In Sparta, they were free to participate in daily life, play sports etc.
Comparing Athens and Sparta?
they have same city state,they have same weather,their chiildren play sport,and climate!@
What are some of the differences between Sparta an Athens Name at least two of them?
1 differences are that Sparta allowed women to play sports but also wanted them 2 be independent, when Athens just wanted there women to stay inside and not do anything. they wanted the men to do everything
What roles did Athens and Sparta play in the Peloponnesian War?
Athens was the maritime power and Sparta was the continental power. The war slogged on and off for over thirty years until Sparta finally gained superiority at sea, and a plague brought in form the Pontic grain ships killed possibly as many as one-third of the population of Athens, leaving it, almost literally, too weak to fight.
What are the main characteristics of Athens and Sparta?
Sparta had a more militaristic state than Athens. Sparta had all men training for the military at age seven and ending at age sixty (so basically their whole life was for the military). Also, Sparta valued women much more than Athens. In Athens, women had no rights at all and were only there to reproduce and to clean up after the men and manage the home. They also took care of the babies. Unlike the Sparta women who were allowed to have military training (but could not serve in the military), play sports, learn about the arts, go out in public, and own property/stores. Those from Sparta were descendants of the Dorian invaders, however those from Athens were descendants of the Ionians. Athens founded democracy, and believed that the individual was important, while Sparta believed in the state rather than the individual, with a government based on a oligarchic system. Sparta based their society on the repression of 'Helots' (slaves). Athens freed their slaves and abolished debt slavery.
What did ancient Sparta think of Athens?
Athens' feelings towards Sparta could differ from person to person and most important from time period to time period. For example, the story of the Battle of Thermopylae was considered very heroic but sometimes Spartan culture was made fun of in plays but in the same play Spartans could be seen as admirable (Aristophanes' Lysistrata, for example).Also, of course, if Athens was at war with Sparta, they would have a much different opinion of them.But one thing that they were very known for was the fact that they were supposed to be very brief with their words with a dry wit, the etymology for the word "laconic" is a reference to Sparta.
What is the same about Sparta and Athens?
Athens loved to learn, they did fight in wars, and they were central government. Sparta loved to fight, they had some girls play sports too! They people were really strong, so that helped them in war. Sparta wanted to be in control, they both go to war. That brings Greece down to distruction.
What role did slaves play in Sparta and Athens?
Slaves in Athens were usd as farm workers, fishermen, servants, miners, prostitutes. Sparta did not have slaves - it had serfs who were free but delivered half their produce to the city-state. In both, they were required to serve as light infantry in the army when required.
How did Athens play a part in its own downfall?
Athens never did recover from their lost of Persian during the plague. In 405 B.C the Sparta staged a blockade. The Spartans surrounded the Athens and closed their harbor with food and supplies. Beaten and starving they surrendered in 404 B.C.
Who wrote the famous play the Persians?
Aeschylus
