Sparta

"What" was the Spartan advantage during the Peloponnesian War? Persian Gold, a feared army on land, and Athenian hubris. Through most of the first two decades of the war there was mostly stalemate: the Spartan boxed the Athenians inside their walls and raided Attica, while the Athenians roamed the seas at will and raided the Peloponnese. The Athenians knew better than to fight the Spartan phalanx (they lost on the two occasions there were major hoplite engagements) and the Spartans knew better than to fight the Athenians at sea (where they lost on the occasions they or their allies tried). The big turn of the tide came in the Sicilian Expedition, where most of the Athenian fleet and some 50,000 Athenian Imperials sailors, soldiers and marines were wiped out, along with most of the Imperial fleet of over 200 triremes (warships). The Spartans, advised by the able Alcibiades (a former Athenian) used Persian gold to build their own massive fleet, which was now on par with the Athenian fleet as they were both composed of inexperienced, newly-raised crews. The Spartans still lost (see the Battle of Arginusae) but they could raise more money (from the Persians!) to build more ships and hire more sailors, and the Athenians could not. The Spartans on a number of occasions offered the Athenians peace terms of status quo ante bellum ("the status before the war") but the Athenian assembly, a very radical, almost communist organisation, refused. So the Spartan admiral Lysander finally and utterly defeated the Athenian navy at the Battle of Aegospotamia in 405. Now stripped of their navy--and so access to their colonies, and their source of gold and food--the Athenians could not continue to fight, as the Spartan army (never defeated by the Athenians) was right outside their Long Walls. So what was the Spartan advantage? A highly feared army on land to hold the Athenians in check, but a good navy and Persian gold to finally defeat them at sea.

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popping out children, housework, taking care of the kids. Same as its been for a while

Spartan boys were trained to be warriors from an early age. This culminated in a test where they were tasked to kill a slave by hand to prove their manhood. At this point they were accepted into the Spartan army.

her name was :P

i believe that they made them into slaves

He was the only boy to return from being left for dead in the wilderness. By surviving on the cold and hunting for food.

■A siege. The Athenians still received food but only from the sea. Athens was a naval power due to the quality and quantity of their ships (called triremes).

Sparta was ruled by two hereditary kings. This meant that the kings were not related to each other, but their titles were passed down to their sons. Sparta also had a council of elders who advised the kings.

When they were first born they were checked for defects in them. If they had defects they would be killed if not they would be raised for military. At age 7-12---education 12-18---physical training 18-30---military then they were aloud to go home but would stilll be apart of military until the age of 60 was when you could fully retire.

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.

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Based on what we now know about the prevalence of homosexuality, it's probable that about 30% of Spartan men had at least one homosexual experience. But until the nineteenth century, most Western cultures assumed that there weren't "homosexual people", just homosexual acts.

In many ancient Mediterranean cultures, it was expected that an adolescent male would be introduced to sexual relationships by an adult male, and eventually "graduate" to heterosexuality.

THIS ABOVE IS VERY SERIOUS MAKING UP OF FACTS,PLEASE AUTHOR TELL US YOUR SOURCES..I would really like to see you graduating up from that abuse.

Now this is probably on the most notorious false accusation of the modern time.Used only to promote homosexuality and make a famous examples.It started in modern times by wrongly understanding or translating the word ''lover'',the name for the mentor of the young Spartan which was just that,a personal mentor,and the Greek term has nothing to do with love in our modern English sense.

Add the strong evidence that doric Laconians had been influenced by doric Cretans in their legal system and there was the possibilty that Cretan "anti-effemination" laws were adopted also,and those strictly forbided homosexual relations with boys especially.

Even Plutarch in life of Lycourgos wrote that the relationship between boy and mentor was chaste.

Of couse homosexuals and paedophiles did exist.

Yet the practice was frowned upon.

The lawmaker Lykourgos charakterized as most horrid if someone desired the body of a child and set that lovers should abstain from this

Plutarch also (Laked. επιτηδ. 7,237 c) informs us that whoever tried to abuse someone was striped of his civil rights for life

"The (lycourgian) law allowed admiration towards the mental gifts of the youths but any physical desire was an abomination that declared carnal and not spiritual love . Whoever by law was condemned thus was dishonoured (striped of his civil rights) for life ".

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The Ancient period is generally held to transition into Mediaeval (Dark Age) in 500 CE, so Ancient doesn't apply. However in 1000 CE, Sparta, as with the rest of the Peloponnese, was depopulated and a rural village of no importance, certainly not militarily.

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My answer is not very descriptive, but I can tell you for any reports on for example, the Trojan War, that Menelaus lived in southern Greece.

First the kings, who were replaced by the oligarchs, who were replaced by the tyrants, who were replaced by the demagogues under the democracy

After the Spartan boys successfully complete the "agoge" (the Spartan training for boys) they were elected to a barrack mess, where they were to eat their meals and spend the majority of their time with his messmates. this ensured that when the mess fought together as a unit in battle, the young spartan would be loyal to his mess and possess an "esprit de corp".

Athens had less concentrated power.

Athens was defeated by Sparta and its wall were pulled down. -_- say thanks!!

877 B.C.

According to Herodotus' history of the Persian Wars, Xerxes demanded tokens of earth and water from the Greeks. Some Greek city-states complied, and some did not. Sparta not only refused to submit, but they threw the Persian envoys into a well and told them to collect their own water, while the Athenians threw their Persian envoys into a pit and told them to collect their own earth. This part of the history reads like fiction, and I think it probably is. There are other indications that Herodotus was writing historical fiction rather than real history, and he may have exaggerated the numbers of the Persian Army to make the Greeks appear even more the underdogs.

Because the thespians wanted to take over the greek.