The spartan community was very closed. This means that the people of Sparta wanted to keep their traditions and values separate from that of other city-states in Greece. They wanted their men to marry spartan women and to have pure spartan children. The bearing of children in particular was taken very seriously by the people of sparta.
To gain land for farming
Slaves were not allowed to be citizens. They were beaten and abused whenever they did something wrong. They generally came from other lands that the Spartans had conquered, and were forced to work for the Spartans.
Slaves were not allowed to be citizens. They were beaten and abused whenever they did something wrong. They generally came from other lands that the Spartans had conquered, and were forced to work for the Spartans.
they use them to keep the other spartans safe.
A Spartans first and only vacation was to be a warrior, anything else would be an insult to the other Spartans. The job of trade went to the Perioikoi, they traveled all across Greece and the Aegean and made Sparta fairly rich. Spartans could travel if they wished, usually they just didn't. The city of Syracuse in Sicily was founded by Spartans. Travel was however discouraged as it tended to be the case that when a Spartan left Sparta they came back with all sorts of 'bad' habits. They were not allowed to trade and travel because they could not risk a war or battle to start on foreign ground.(Even though they were a military community)
The Spartans are to being warriors as Americans are to being fat and lazy
The Spartans were involved in the Persian Wars, particularly the battle of Thermopylae (where 300 Spartans famously held off the Persians), the Peloponnesian War (against the Athenians), and other minor skirmishes with neighboring city states, which usually ended with the Spartans conquering the other city state.
No but other Spartans appear. This takes place before the majority of the Spartans were killed.
All Spartan men were required to serve in the army, any other occupation was delegated to an underclass called periokoi. One of their duties was to act as merchants for Sparta.
The perioeci, or perioikoi, were the members of an autonomous group of free but non-citizen inhabitants of Sparta. They were the only people allowed to travel to other cities, which the Spartans were not, unless given permission.
The Athenians and Spartans fought each other in what is referred to as the Peloponnesian War from 431 to 404 BC .
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