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What enemies did Athens and Sparta have?
Athens was enemies with Sparta and Sparta was enemies with Athens
What was the importance of Sparta?
What was the importance of Sparta
Were there many merchants in Sparta?
No. Because the Sparta
In greek mythology who is the king of 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.
Who are the people who conquered Athens and 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.
What war destroyed the athenian empire?
Pelopponesian war, fought between Sparta and her alllies, and the Athenian Empire
Did Athens defeat Sparta in the Peloponnesian War?
After 27 years Athens, its fleet destroyed, was besieged and starved into surrender.
When did sparta defeat athens?
They worked together when the persians were attacking
The Greek city states fought against each other Peloponnesian war what was the major effect of the war?
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.
Did Athens have the most powerful navy in the Aegean world?
It did until 405 BCE when the navy was destroyed by a Peloponnesian fleet led by Sparta at Aigospotamai in the Dardanelles Strait.
How so you say this is Sparta in German?
This is Sparta! = Dies ist Sparta!
What is the landscape of the Sahara Desert?
sparta, sparta and SPARTA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Was Sparta in Greece in the Elizabethan era?
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'.
Which Greek city-state had a powerful navy?
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.
What was the Peloponnese war?
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).
Is this Sparta blasfamy or madness?
Sparta, this is most definitly Sparta!
Did Sparta believe in a strong navy?
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.
