Sparta was war obsessed due to its militaristic society, which prioritized discipline, strength, and combat readiness to maintain control over its large population of enslaved people known as helots. The constant threat of rebellion from the helots, combined with Sparta's need to defend its territory against rival city-states like Athens, reinforced the importance of military training and prowess. This focus on warfare was ingrained in Spartan culture, education, and daily life, with citizens trained from a young age to uphold their legacy as elite warriors.
Bullets? Shrapnel? Wet boots/socks? Angry badgers?
Well...I don't if it was IN Sparta, but there was the war between Athens and Sparta.
Yes. During the cold war, the US was under constant threat of ICBM attack from the USSR. Due to the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty, the US was prevented from developing interceptors to shoot down those ICBM's.
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Sparta was war obsessed due to its militaristic society, which prioritized discipline, strength, and combat readiness to maintain control over its large population of enslaved people known as helots. The constant threat of rebellion from the helots, combined with Sparta's need to defend its territory against rival city-states like Athens, reinforced the importance of military training and prowess. This focus on warfare was ingrained in Spartan culture, education, and daily life, with citizens trained from a young age to uphold their legacy as elite warriors.
a protsetant rebellion in Spain
Constant threat
Athens cooperated with Sparta. Sparta assisted Athens to establish its independence after its tyrants were expelled, Athens provided major contingents as one of the cities led by Sparta resisting the Persian invasion. Athens assisted Sparta to put down an internal rebellion, but thereafter they fell out and became adversaries.
Constant threat
The constant hurricane threat.
constant sewage from inhabitable places.
The rebellion of helots in 650 B.C. caused Sparta to establish a military society. This revolution marked complete change in Spartan life.
Earthquakes
Alliances in Greece changed. For example several times Sparta and Athens fought on the same side, at others on opposing sides. Similarly at times Sparta and Thebes fought together, at other times were opponents. Generally Sparta was allied to other Doric city-states, though again this was not a hard and fast rule. And although Persia was usually an opponent of the Greek city-states, it was Persian financial support which enabled Sparta and its allies to get a competent fleet in the Peloponnesian War and defeat Athens.
Our foreign neighbors no longer pose a constant threat to our safety.
They were crowded, dirty, & fires were a near constant threat.