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Sparta
One of the city states of ancient Greece, Sparta was well known for its warrior culture.
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Which describes Solon's contribution to the city-state of Athens?
Solon was appointed to prevent a civil war between the aristocracy and the lower classes. He brought in some changes such as eliminating debt slavery, but was not charged with establishing democracy. That came nearly a century later introduced by Cleisthenes in 507 BCE.
What is difference between Athen women and Sparta women?
The men in Athens were free to do what they wanted when the men in Sparta had to train all day long giving no time to do anything else. boys were taken away from their mothers at age 7 to begin training.
Which is better at fighting Athens or Sparta?
Sparta had a better army by far, but Athens had a much better navy.
Why did Sparta decide to help Athens in the Persian war?
Because the Persian army wanted to destroy individual Greek poli, so Athens convinced other poli to combine forces with them and make a league or an alliance in order to attack the Persian army and eventually win.
Did the Athens or Sparta have a democracy?
Sparta because they did not have as much freedom as Athens.
Who was the king that died that was protecting Sparta from the Persians?
The name of the brave king who died in battle while protecting Sparta from the Persian was Leonidas. He died a heroic death at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C.
What are 20 simalarties between Athens and Sparta?
The only similarities between Athens and Sparta was that they were both Greek. Otherwise, there is no correlation, they are synonyms and completely opposite. Sparta is awesome while Athens is extremely homosexual.
What was the major reason for Sparta's victory over Athens in the Peloponnesian War?
Persia provided a financial subsidy to Sparta which enabled it to double the pay of seamen and rowers, which Athens could not afford to match. This gave the Spartan alliance sea-parity with the Athenians. By careful planning they were able to catch the Athenian fleet beached with its crews dispersed feeding themselves at Aigospotamai, and captured it. Athens, without sea power and and penned up in the city, with no way of raising funds from its allies (empire) or procuring food, had to surrender.
Why was Sparta so important in Greece?
Because They were great fighters. They Had great soders that would fight till they died. I Know thats kindda weird and all but in sparta and allot of greece. People would actually look forward to their death It was considered a honor To die for your country! I kinda would Wanna die to If I were them They had such harsh lives
What island were the Athens defeated on?
First of all athens is not a group of people athens is a city not a war whoever wrote this probably got confused with the trojans and the greeks and the romans.
Who helped Sparta defeat Athens?
The coalition of southern Greek city-states, not Athens, fought the Persians. At the winning land battle of Plataia 479 BCE it included Sparta, Athens, Tegea, Corinth, Orchonemos, Sicyon, Epidauros, Troizen, Mycenai, Tirtns, Phlius, Hermion, Eritrea, Chalcis, Ambracia, Leucas, Pelea, Aigina, Megara, Plataia.
However ten years earlier the city of Plataia helped Athens turn back the punitive expedition which Persia had sent against Eretria and Athens.
Why were the Spartans and Athens at war?
The differences were not great - Sparta had a government which was a limited democracy - that is that is it was limited to the adult males who also comprised the army; they met in assembly and made decisions on matters put before them by the council.
Athens started that way but progressively moved to a broader , then a radical democracy (however no women or other slaves need apply).
Both states had executive leadership, but both were constrained by the direct votes of the electorate on important issues.
They became allies when their interests coincided - especially in the face of the Persian threat. Then Athens helped Sparta when part of its territory revolted.
The split began when Athens began to create its empire by manipulating the anti-Persian league formed after the Xerxes invasion was driven off. Athens progressively used the funds for its own benefit and became aggressive throughout the Greek world, which caused a polarisation of city-states behind Athens and Sparta respectively. The split grew and war betwen both blocs ensued (the 27-year Peloponnesian War).
What was the name of the conflict between Athens and Sparta and their allies-?
"What is the conflict between Good and Evil?" (Not to say Athen is good, Sparta - Evil, I just mean they are two polarities, they just can't seem to get on) Sparta thought Athens was getting too powerful so they decided to show them a thing or two, Athens should have won, if it weren't for the death of their leader Pericles, at the hands of the plague. Sparta won and Athens lost her empire. Sparta did not gain it however, she liberated each state to rule themselves. We call it the Peloponessian War today. The two cities were polar in most cultural respects, but they cooperated in defeating Persia in the Second Persian War. After the war Athens got most of the credit, intensifying the existing rivalry between them. It was primarily a political conflict about which city should be Number One in Greece.
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The Peloponnesian War 431-404 BCE was fought between Sparta and its allies and Athens and its allies (empire).
Sparta and Athens were allies and respected each other for many years. They cooperated against Persia, Sparta sending a contingent to Athens to help defend against Persia's attack on Athens in 490 BCE, but it arrived too late, after the battle of Marathon had been fought. Cooperation continued, but it came adrift when the Athenian contingent sent to help Sparta put down a rebellion of its serfs in 461 BCE went awry when the Spartans realised that the Athenians were sympathetic to the opposition, and sent the Athenians home.
After the Persian War ended in 449 BCE, Athens opportunistically converted the Delian League of eastern Greek cities it had led against the Persian Empire into an empire of its own, and lived high on the hog with the war funds it continued to extort from those cities, turning the League into an empire of its own - the cities effectively held off an invader only to be taken over by their own leader.
Athens, overconfident with this success and money, kept interfering in other Greek cities not inside its empire, bringing it into conflict with members of the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta. Athens destroyed the Corinthian fleet, and finally tried to bankrupt Megara, one of these cities. The Peloponnesian cities appealed to Sparta, which demanded that Athens back off. It didn't and the devastating 27-year Peloponnesian War 431-404 BCE ensued.
The irony was that Persia had its revenge on Athens by bankrolling a fleet for the Peloponnesian League which could match the hitherto-dominant Athenian fleet on which its power and empire rode.
Further consequences: The reason for the Persian Wars was that Persia tried to stop western Greek cities interfering in the peace within its empire by bringing the cities outside its empire under control. With Athens the chief troublemaker, the Persians thought 'better a Peloponnesian dominance than an Athenian dominance'. After the Peloponnesian War ended in Athens' defeat and loss of its empire, the Greek cities went on fighting each other in shifting alliances and - another irony - Persia imposed the King's Peace, threatening retaliation if their endless fighting continued to spill over into the Persian Empire, which was the cause of the Persian Wars the previous century in the first place. And while Persia had the advantage over the war-weakened Greek cities, it resumed control of the Greek cities in Asia Minor which it had lost after the Persian War over 60 years earlier.
How were the armies of Athens and Sparta different?
During the Dark Ages of ancient Greece, the two were indistinguishable. Small city-states that we know very little about with complex tribal beliefs and a king called a basileus.
During the Archaic Period, however, the two developed into distinct types of city-state. Athens went from an autocracy to democracy, and Sparta grew into an empire based on the principles of an autocratic meritocracy with a military focus. All Spartan men were citizens, and all Spartan citizens were highly-trained soldiers.
While Athens boasted the best navy, Sparta had some of the best foot soldiers the ancient world had ever seen.
Why was education in Athens different from Sparta?
Sparta only focused on strength reading writing if this had nothing to due with a good military they wouldn`t be there. Athens though was about the Arts so building writing Darma and such was more there focus
not sure who their friends were but they HATED Sparta i know that
What are 2 differences between Sparta and Athens?
The best way to begin comparing Athens and Sparta is to know as much as possible about the history and culture of each -- for starters look both up on Wikipedia and go to the included links. An excellent way to learn more -- a good book that is both fun to read and very informative on the differences between the two cultures -- is commonly called "Plutarch's Lives" though it is really "Parallel Lives" by an early Greek historian named Plutarch (46 A.D. to 120 A.D.). One of his pair of "parallel lives" concerned the founding "lawgivers" of Sparta (Lycurgus) and Athens (Solon).
It is worth noting as you begin to study the similarities and differences between the two cultures that most of the earliest writing on the subject is by Athenians, as Athens was by far the more literate and cosmopolitan of the two societies.
It is important to note that the two societies were both Greek city states and had a great deal in common, including a common "larger" culture that included a shared set of historical and mythical beliefs, religious and ethical beliefs, etc. While Sparta is usually considered the more "warlike" society, both city states were usually in a state of constant war with one or more of their neighbors or enemies farther afield -- this was not just an accident of the political climate, as active participation in war was considered the defining aspect of manhood in both societies. In other words if there had been no wars arising out of natural conflict over territory and resources, they would have had to start one... and often did.
Likewise, though Plutarch, among others, looks askance at Spartans for their supposedly brutal treatment of their ethnically distinct serfs, the Helots, both societies were aristocratic slaveholding societies -- the "citizens" we know and learn about in general constituted the upper classes. The democracy in Athens was just for citizens and they did not constitute a majority of the population. While Sparta is not considered a democracy, its small elite aristocracy were trained from birth in an ethos not unlike that of our modern military academies, so, while organized on authoritarian lines, the society counted on the active support and participation of its citizens and thus required much the same level of consensus and "consent of the governed" as would be found in a more traditional "democracy."
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What language do the Spartans speak?
The ancient Spartans spoke Dorian Greek, a dialect of ancient Greek language.
Modern Spartans, like most other modern Greeks, speak modern Greek with the usual regional variations.
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The type of government that existed in Sparta could be described as?
Sparta had a limited democracy, where the citizens had motions put before them by the Council for decisions but could not raise motions themselves.
What form of government was in Sparta?
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Are there any Spartans left today?
After their last fall to the Romans they were allowed to keep freedom, but through time they got culturally diffused, and the older Spartan way of life seemed to slowly slip away. So their are still descendants of Sparta, but no one is full Spartan.
