It was Destroyed by the Persians
Athens was enemies with Sparta and Sparta was enemies with Athens
What was the importance of Sparta
No. Because the Sparta
There were lots of kings of Sparta. Sparta actually was required to have two kings for most of its ancient history. I think that you are refering to Homer's Sparta. Menelaus was the king of Mycenean Sparta.
The Macedonians, a Hellenistic people to the North of Greece, conquered an army of Greek city-states at the Battle of Chaeronea in the Fourth Century BC. Athens and Sparta were among them, but the Greak coalition was led by Thebes which had replaced Sparta as the leading political force in Greece, just as Sparta had earlier destroyed the power of Athens. The Macedonians were well-organized, skilled at war, and led by the able king Philip of Macedon. Greece remained a Macedonian territory until the arrival of the Romans, whereupon both became Roman territory.
Pelopponesian war, fought between Sparta and her alllies, and the Athenian Empire
After 27 years Athens, its fleet destroyed, was besieged and starved into surrender.
They worked together when the persians were attacking
The major effect was that the Athenian Empire was destroyed and Sparta became the dominant city-state in Greece, until Sparta was defeated by Thebes.
It did until 405 BCE when the navy was destroyed by a Peloponnesian fleet led by Sparta at Aigospotamai in the Dardanelles Strait.
This is Sparta! = Dies ist Sparta!
sparta, sparta and SPARTA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No, The original Sparta was at the height of it's power over 1100 years before Elizabeth I, it was destroyed by Alaric and the Visigoths in 396AD. Such was the reputation of the Spartan army that even Alexander the Great and his father Philip of Macedonia left them alone, although Philip sent them this message 'If I enter Sparta, I will level it to the ground.' The Spartans sent back a one word message, 'IF'.
This varied from time to time. In the 5th Century BCE Athens built a powerful one which dominated for 80 years until the Persians subsidised a competing one for the Peloponnesian League which destroyed the Athenian fleet.
The Peloponnesian War was a series of conflicts between the Athens and the Delian League and Sparta and the Peloponnesian League. The basic cause the was expansion of the influence of Athens into Lacodaemon, the territory Sparta controlled. The war ended in 404 B.C. with the surrender of Athens to Sparta. Corinth and Thebes wished for Athens to be destroyed and its people enslaved, but Sparta refused, citing that it would not destroy and city that had done good service at the time of greatest danger for Greece (citing the Greco-Persian wars).
Sparta, this is most definitly Sparta!
When Athens used its navy to good effect during the 27-year Peloponnesian War, Sparta realised that it had to get the Peloponnesian league an equally strong nave to succeed. They took money from Persia to build a fleet which finally destroyed the Athenian navy and led to Athens' surrender.