Sparta

it was very thick as they had to fight with it

Agamemnon was the King of Mycenae, leader of the Achaeans, and the older brother of Menelaus. Paris was a prince of Troy and therefore not under any obligation to listen to Agamemnon. As long as Troy was willing to defend against the Achaeans, Paris did not need to return Helen.

They are very straight forward and and tactical. They somethimes have moments of humor but are usually very serious. They take a loss in their squad very hard and will die to keep everyone else alive.

Although there are likely many answers or opinions to this, Athens is best known for its concept of exercising democracy, as it is one of the earliest initiators of this form of government on record.

It would stand to reason, based on the early concept of a Democratic form of government, Athenians would have valued the law.

They are 153 miles apart by land and 95 miles apart by air. Can you believe that in 490BC a messanger was ordered to run that distance just to send reinforcments for a battle! Not only that but after he made it he returned with the reinforcments, fought in the battle and was then ordered to run all the back to announce the victory!!! He made it but collapsed and died of exhaustion.

Edit: Actually, the story about a man running from Marathon to Athens is not true. A herald named Pheidippides was sent on the 150 mile run to Sparta (which he made in two days) for reinforcements, but the story about him being ordered to run from Marathon to Athens is just a bastardization of several accounts, mostly from long after the war. It's usually wrongly attributed to Herodotus.

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Pheidipides the runner arrived back in Athens from this run hallucinating, and died, so he was unable to do any fighting and running later at Marathon. After the Athenians defeated the Persian infantry at Marathon, they realised that the Persian cavalry, which had been absent from the battle (which allowed the Athenians to win), were sailing around to Athens to enter the city gates which were to be opened for them by traitors. The 9,000 Athenian warriors ran the 26 miles from Marathon to Athens to form up in front of the city just as the Persian cavalry began to disembark, and repelled them.

The runners of the first Marathon run were these 9,000, carrying their armour and weapons, after having already fought that morning at Marathon. The runners of today's marathon races which replicate that desperate defence, get it pretty easy by comparison.

Sparta was stronger on land, Athens stronger by sea.

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For starters if you were born with any defects you were left to die and they would take you from your mother at young age and take to a military camp to be trained as Sparta's greatest soldiers. There you are half starved and the only thing to do is steal food. They encourage stealing but the thing is if you got caught they would whip you in front of your mother. If you passed out your mother would disown you and this all when you are abut the age of 6-18 Also, Sparta was a poor farming community making it hard to eat sometimes. You were not allowed to leave the army until you were 60. And you had to start training for the army at the age of 7. Women were treated well though, but the only reason was because in order to be treated good they had to be strong and healthy in order to have strong healthy babies.

They wore tunics, like the rest of Greece. They also wore tunics under their armour when they went to fight. They could be gathered on the shoulder or at the stomach,some may be completely naked for comfort. Their armor was a bronze curiass, bronze lower leg armor, a hoplon shield, and a Corinthian style helmet.

He was called by King Meneleus of Sparta to help him avenge the theft of his wife (and thus his honour and reputation) by Paris of Troy.

They joined together with other Greek cities to assemble naval and land forces which could match the Persians, and used superior strategy and tactics at the battles of Salamis, Plataia and Mykale.

The women of Sparta had rights, participating in sports and open lifestyle, compared with Athenian women who were kept in purdah in the home rearing children and working in the house and garden.

The competition of the two powers of the Ancient Greek world was on going for centuries. The longest faught war though was the Peloponnesian war [term given later by the historians] which started at 431 and ended at 404 BCE ans caused the deaths of many including Pericles son and later his own.

They trained for war and being dominant on the battlefield.

However Sparta was very conservative about entering wars, preferring to negotiate solutions which were sustainable rather than imposing by conquest. They were encouraged in this approach by their problems of a restive serf population in their home territories, who provided a constant threat of uprising , with the absence of the army exposing them to revolution in their absence.

For this reason they took seven serfs for each soldier on campaign to reduce the risk at home - and these serfs provided support to the Spartan warriors as light infantry.

The Spartans are located in the region in Lacronia.

It depends on what stage of their Spartan life you are referring to.

I have read that during their early years, during military training, that spartan boys were sometimes fed pig fat and pig blood. The idea was that if you could stomach anything you would have a better chance of surviving. It also encouraged the boys/trainees to steal food. When caught they were punished not for stealing but for being caught. Again it was meant to ensure their survival.

Once they graduated or became men I believe they could eat anything, but their diet was still somewhat limited. Because Sparta discouraged trading there would have been little exotic foods. The diet would of consisted of whatever the Helots, the Spartan agricultural slaves, grew. Which would have been whatever was native to southern Greece.

Sorry, I can't be more specific.

Athens and Sparta did not fight each other in isolation. They fought as allies and as adversaries in various conflicts over a couple of hundred years. So Athens did not defeat Sparta or Sparta defeat Athens. They were involved in wider conflicts in the battles.

After Alexander took over the Persian Empire, Greece and the his empire were divided amongst his generals who set up their own kingdoms. The city-states in eastern Europe and Asia were absorbed into these kingdoms. These kingdoms had an insatiable appetite for Greek warriors to maintain control of these kingdoms, especially in Egypt and Syria-Mesopotamia, and the Greek cities were progressively depopulated to feed this demand. Greek historian Plutarch wrote that 'you could not find three thousand men-at-arms in all of Greece' which encapsulates how the population had dwindled with the eastward movement of the Greeks. Some cities remained, but with a mixed population. Being 'Greek' came increasingly to mean those who adopted Greek culture rather than being ethnically Greek and having to prove their parentage to be accepted as a citizen of their polis at the age of 18 - the Jewish aristocracy spoke Greek and even invented an operation to restore their foreskins so that they were not derided at the public baths.

Menelaus was the brother of Agamemnon, and was the king of Sparta. He was best known for being the husband of Helen. Helen had left with Paris, and Menelaus fought to get her back in the Trojan war.

A navy is not on land, so neither had the best navy.

Because Sparta depended on slaves to do their work