Sparta

The Peloponnesian War.

While Sparta adopted a limited form of democracy, Athens pushed forward into a radical form of democracy.

While Sparta rested on a rural economy, Athens formed an empire and used the proceeds to expand its culture - attracting outstanding people from around the Greek world in architecture, arts, philosophy, science.

The pillaged money was also diverted to putting half Athens' people on the public payroll, while Sparta lived of its serf population's produce.

When the perisians became too powerful Athens and Sparta knew they had to be stopped so they teamed up and took a victory off the perisians

The athenians helped sparta because even though they were enemies they had helped because they fellow greeks

Athens sent troops to help Sparta put down a revolt by their serfs. The Athenians started to show signs of favouring the serfs, so the Spartans sent them home, with lasting resentment on both sides.

I believe the distance is 153 Miles or 150 miles people say it is one or the other.

Both were in a coalition of southern Greek city-states which defeated a Persian invasion 480-479 BCE. Sparta led the alliance at the start, but it left it to Athens in the second half of the 50-year war in which there were dozens of sea and land battles. After too many losses, the Persians agreed to peace and left the Greek cities to go back to their usual fighting each other.

they both suck and are stupid

No it is on a peninsula.

It varied from time to time. At its peak it was 200 warships and 35,000 part-time citizen-infantry.

After the Persian invasion was repelled, Sparta left the ongoing wars and turned its attention to controlling revolts by its large serf population. It headed the Peloponnesian League which came into conflict with Athens after the Persian war was over and Athens turned the Delian League it had led into the war into an empire of its own. This conflict led to the Peloponnesian War in which Athens was defeated and Sparta became the dominant power in the Greek world for the next 30 years, when the constant wars amongst the Greek city-states so weakened Sparta that it was displaced by Thebes, and faded out of power.

Sacrifices and prayer were the most common means. Even in ancient Greece though, human sacrifice was abhorred. People would regularly visit the temple of their patron God or Goddess and pray and sacrifice animals.

a lot of times they would leave offerings and stuff to them lik cheese or gold or food or whatever

I dont know what boys were but women had no rights in Athens and in Sparta they did.

Sparta was part of the Greek nation. They actually fought Athens due to beliefs and education. Sparta was all war and athletics while Athens was education and logic, along with a navy which Sparta didn't have.

The Athenian boys are more free than the Spartan boys. The Athenians are not mandated to join the army nor the navy. They can go to school to pursue education in arts and sciences. The Spartans are only focused on the war and that they are to be trained in military service only.

They moved in as nomads, took over a section of arable land with water, built a farming community. The built a fort on a high place (acropolis) around which a city grew up, and the city and land we call today a city-state.

King Leonidas and the 300 Spartan armoured warriors who were his personal bodyguard, with 2,100 Spartan light infantry, who along with 700 Thespians and about 4,000 warriors from from other Greek cities fought the battle in August-September 480 BCE to force a sea battle in the nearby Malian Guld to destroy the Persian navy.

Most of the other city warriors were sent off before the end of the battle to get inside friendly walls before the Persian cavalry broke through and rode them down, and the 2,400 Spartans and 700 Thespians fought to the death to give them the chance to get away. Leonidas also kept the Theban contingent as he suspected them of switching sides - during the final fight they quickly surrendered.

i am pretty sure they were called Spartans but i am not sure

they had fought together and against each other

Athenians had Athena as their patron god, due to her gift of the olive tree to Athens during a competition with Poseidon.

Athenians constructed the Parthenon in the Acropolis as her temple, and additionally as we now know, a place for storing very valuable items.

Athena's full name was Athena Parthenos. She was the goddess of wisdom & warfare.

athenian men have much more freedom and power than the woman. Woman are forbidden to learn to read and write. The only thing women were valued for was to have healthy children to grow up to be healthy fighters. athenian men have much more freedom and power than the woman. Woman are forbidden to learn to read and write. The only thing women were valued for was to have healthy children to grow up to be healthy fighters.

When Xerxes's army invaded Greece, the army had to go through a mountain pass called Thermopylae. The Greek army consisted of 4,000 soldiers.

For seven days, the Greeks held back the Persians, and the last three of those days were full on battle. However, a Greek traitor told the Persians of a way to pass around the Greeks. When King Leonidas of Sparta, who was the leader of the Greek army, found out that they were to be surrounded, he dismissed most of the army, remaining to defend the pass with only 300 Spartans, 400 Thebans, and 700 Thespians, and perhaps a few hundred others. Nearly all of those who stayed back were killed by the Persian army, but they helped to delay the Persian army and give the retreating Greeks enough time to escape.

Whether the actions of Leonidas and the Spartans helped in Athens's final victory at Salamis I don't know, but he and his brave army did save the lives of thousands of Greeks.

I think what makes it so cool and unique is that its history has been recorded for more than 3,400 years. Another reason it is so great is bcuz it is so big. It was ranked 25th richest city in the world in 2008.