Sparta

The siege of Troy probably happened around 1100 BC. The battle of Thermopylae was in 480 BC - about six hundred years later.

It was stripped of its empire and became a second-rate power. It continued to engage in wars, shifting sides according to where its benefit lay. It was eventually taken under control by an expanding Macedonia.

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Spartans didn't have a V on their shield, They had a Lambda, which looked like an inverted V. A Lambda is the Greek letter L, Spartans wore it on their shield because it stood for Laconia, which is the part of Greece the Spartans are from.

Spartan boys: If born with defect they were killed immediately, If they lived to seven they were how to fight and how to steal once they had reached age 30 the men were taught how to kill slaves (usually slaves)

Athenian Boys: They were not killed when born but once they reached the age of seven they were taught fine arts

Germany invaded and occupied Greece in WW 2 prior to attacking Russia. They bombed Athens and other Greek cities and killed many civilians as part of their terror campaign against the nation.

Well in Sparta, women didnt have much rights but had more freedom than women in Athens so you can say Sparta

Athens :)

They are not Greek, they are Dorians. They raided from the north and enslaved the helots and settled near the helots.

Athens was a polis. It didn't contain other poleis (plural of polis), though in the Delic-Attic League they did dominate many others.

Greece did not exist as a country in Ancient World. There were numerous Greek-city states including Athens, Sparta, Argos, Corinth just to name a few.

The main reason a war broke out between Athens, its allies and the Peloponnesian league, was due to many reasons, such as Sparta's need to train in real war situations (Sparta didn't wage war very often) and battles for territory.

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Well the Spartans had conquered the Messenians during 743 b.c and 668 b.c (2 wars during that period). The conquered inhabitants were turned into helots (people who worked their masters lands, something like serfs during the middle ages) These helots were extremely hostile towards their Spartan Masters and out numbered them (some accounts put the ration at 10:1), Thus Sparta was like a camp in the middle of a hostile population (like an American military outpost in the heart of Baghdad) . This caused the Spartans to adopt the Lycurgus system (the "military government") in order to meet a helot revolt with quickly and overcome the insurrection as fast as possible. It was the fear of helot revolts that caused them to adopt the system.

*The Irony is that helot system which they instituted (expansion, conquest, land distribution , serfdom) was the main reason for them to convert their social system to the military model.

For further info, try and refer to "A history of Greece" by J.B. BUry and Russell Miggs

It is only a personal theory which some may consider wacko, but the Greeks observed nature closely and took much inspiration from it. I think they may have observed the ants and seen them as a perfect society in prehistoric Greece, just as a Greek temple column is thought to represent a tree trunk because Greek religious rites were once held in the woods. Each Greek city-state can be likened to an anthill, and the hardbodied ant-man physique depicted in Greek art was certainly the ideal if not the exact reality. Ants make war on other ants. Ants give no quarter in battle, but they take the eggs of defeated ants and raise them to be slaves. If true, the earliest Spartans must have decided to be the army ants of Greece, with each man being a soldier and nothing more. The Spartan helots, or slaves, were the workers, as an ant soldier is incapable of feeding itself. Every Spartan woman was a queen, and her purpose was to bear as many healthy Spartan children as possible. In the team-oriented ant society, there was no room for weak members, which may account for the Greek abandonment of weak or deformed children. If my theory is valid, Sparta certainly carried this belief to greater extremes than any other of the ancient Greeks, and theirs was the only Greek army with uniformity of armor. Also, Spartans were descended from warlike Dorians who invaded Greece centuries earlier, and the Doric temple column derives its name from these early invaders.

Be cause Athens wanted even MORE power so Sparta started war and WON! They then took over there government and made it a dictatorship.

In 490 BCE Athens and its ally Plataia defeated a Persian punitive expedition at Marathon

by attacking the Persian infantry when its cavalry support was absent.

In 481 there was no battle as there were no Persians forces in mainland Greece.

In 480 BCE the southern Greek alliance fleet defeted the Persian fleet by splitting the fleet at Salamis and defeating it in detail.

In 479 BCE the Greek alliance defeated a depleted Persian army (half had been sent home because it could not be supported in Greece when its sea supply line had been cut by the loss of its naval power at Salamis) at Plataia by fighting on rough ground where the persian cavalry could not operate. They also destroyed the remainder of the Persian fleet at Mykale on the shore as it was now too weak to come out for a sea battle.

Thebes was , at different times , allied with Sparta when it was mutually beneficial to both . For example there was a Theban contingent , The Sacred Band , with Sparta at the Battle of Thermopylae . (Thebes effectively ended Spartan influence and prestige by defeating the Spartans at the Battle of Leuctra .)

Athens.

The differences between Athens and Sparta were caused by the geographical location, they were quite far apart so it should be expected that they had different societies. Another reason was that they were both founded at different times, by different people.
They were both independent city-states in southern Greece. The Spartans were rural, living off the produce of a serf population and devoting themselves to training for war. The Ahenians had to do their own production and their war training in their spare time. The Spartans were stolid and cautious, the Athenians were adventurous.

Athens is defeated by Sparta .

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The Athenians were Ionian Greeks, the Spartans were Doric Greeks. They shared the same gods, and values, bonded in the Amphictyonic cultural league, participating in the same Games.

Some times they were allies, sometimes enemies.

The same differences and similarities affected all Greek city-states at various times. It also exists in all cultures throughout the world , then and now. Thats humans.

Helot

They were part of a larger Greek force which was withdrawn. The Spartan contingent selflessly remained to hold the pass when the force was withdrawn to let them escape, and was eventually overwhelmed.