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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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By about what year were greek city states flourishing?
In the year 338 BCE the Greek city states flourishing. This ended in the year 600 BCE.
Would it be easier to attack Athens or Sparta geographically?
Athens was on the coast, so was open to surprise seaborne attack. Sparta was inland and could have warning of and prepare for a land attack.
However there were other factors:
Athens was walled, could therefore be defended by a small force, and being connected by walls to its seaport, could import food when under siege. It could also send out an expedition by sea to attack it's attacker's home city while that city's army was besieging Athens..
Sparta was unwalled and had to be defended by land battle in the open, so it depended on the army being home and strong enough to see off an attacker. Sparta also had a large serf population nearby and was vulnerable to an uprising.
Who would win in a fight spartan or barbarian?
Spartan, due to superior weaponry, armor, training, and physical fitness.
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How was life in Sparta different from Athens?
Sparta was a very warring country, at an early age they would train children for war. Athens was more of an education based country, and they would spend long days studying philosophy and mathematics.
Another view:
Sparta was a rural society. Its male citizens trained for war, with the serf population giving half their produce to support the citizens. Women had substantial rights. It had a government of limited democracy where the citizens voted on matters put to them by the council.
Athens was partly rural supported by slaves, partly tradesmen and traders. Males had to serve in the army when called out. Women were responsible to run the home, and were kept there in virtual purdah, getting out only for the odd female religious festival. It had a government of direct democracy - that is the citizens met in fortnightly assembly to direct the state.
What is the ancient Sparta activities?
There were a lot of cultural activities associated with Ancient Sparta. Here are a few.
1. The "Agoge" was a form of education/military training which the Spartans followed and were famous for.
2. The "gymnopedia" was a major annual festival.
3. The "krypteia" was the organized and clandestine killing of random Helots by young members of the Spartan class. (Helots were Spartan slaves.)
4. The festival of Artemis Orthia was an annual festival honoring a prominent Spartan goddess.
5. Infant exposure was probably practiced elsewhere in Ancient Greece, but it was particularly unforgiving in Sparta.
6. The Spartans had a set of unique laws and Lycurgus was one of their famous early law givers.
7. The Spartans had a tradition of speaking in a brief and pointed fashion. Consequently, there are extensive collections of Spartan saying which have survived the centuries. (We also get the term "laconic" from that aspect of Spartan culture.)
The list could go on, but this is decent start.
Athenians or Spartans had hubris?
The Athenians , only because they came to grief during the Peloponnesian Wars by overestimating their powers to overwhelm Sparta .
What would a mom from Sparta most likely say to her son that was headed off to war?
Come with your shield or on it.
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How was Athens similar to Sparta?
Both were Greek city-states which led different alliances of city-states in Greece. At times when their interests were similar they werallis.When diferent they were adversaries - the story of the Greek world.
The helots were an unfree population group that formed the main population of Laconia and the whole of Messenia (areas of Sparta).
A hoplite was a citizen-soldier of the Ancient Greek City-states. Hoplites occasionally served with the Spartan army.
Addition:
Hoplites were armoured soldiers, so the Spartan infantry was comprised of hoplites.
The Spartan helots (serfs) were used as light infantry and archers, however later during the Peloponnesian War (the force which Brasidas took north in 422 BCE were helot hoplites), and later when the ongoing wars had depleted the Spartan hoplite numbers, they expanded the use of helots as hoplites, often with the inducement of being freed of serfdom (being bound to their plot of land) after successful service.
Why didn't Spartans have walls around their city-states?
Answers:
Spartans claimed that the walls defending their city-states where the men themselves; Spartan men were trained in the art of war since their 6th year of age, so they concidered themselves a superior fighting force in comparison to other Greeks.
Hope this helps.
What group of outsiders had tyrannical control of the Greek city-states in the sixth century BC?
Alexander the Great overtook the Greek city-states during the sixth century BC. His rule was considered tyrannical control and is titled Hellenistic rule.
When was Archilles of Sparta was born and when did he die?
First: Achilles was not from Sparta. You are probably making an assumption because of the movie 300 and the stories of how powerful the Spartans were as warriors. Truth is, in Achilles time, the fiercest warriors in the world were the Myrmidons.
Achilles was born on the island of Aegina, of which his father Peleus was king. He was killed by Paris while trying to scale the walls of Troy.
Because he was a mythological figure, no dates are ever given for his birth or death.
