...There is a reason Sparta is still known for their military dominates today. Sparta made up the formation called the phalanx. The phalanx consisted of a tight group of soldiers each holding a shield that interlocked with his neighbor’s, each man carrying a short sword and a thrusting spear. Sparta also focused on their military, the boys left their families at the age of seven to twenty-first year of training. The strengths of Sparta outweigh the weaknesses because they respected authority, they had an advanced military, and because the women were respected. To begin, with the Spartans respected authority. In document it says, “The young men were required not only to respect their own fathers and to be obedient to them, but to have regard for all the older men.” How could Spartans be loyal to others if they didn’t respect authority? People should respect authority because now of days people go visit the elderly, and if we didn’t...
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...People wonder if the education in Sparta, strengths outweighed the weaknesses. No, the strengths did not outweigh the costs for many reasons. The reasons why are they only learned how to read and write,they taught spartan boys to steal, and they didn’t get freedom. If they continue to do this then the answer will still be no. If they did different things then their answer will be a yes. One of the reasons is because Spartans only learned how to read and write. Spartans need to learn more things like math. For example, Spartans need to know what places they are going to be in which spot in the battle. They need to also know the sizes, shapes, and measurements of their weapons and armor. Spartans didn’t learn anything else then that's not...
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...Sparta The Spartan country was ruled by two kings, the kings would lead the army in times of war. Even with the kings, they had five magistrates that were elected from high up families.Then they also had a council made up to create all of Sparta’s laws. This council was made up of the two kings and twenty-eight elders. The elders, all being of the age sixty or older, took the laws to an assembly made up of citizens for a vote. Although, when voting they to don’t discuss the law, nor do they alter what they had. They stated the law, and voted straight after. The only way to be qualified as a citizen of Sparta was to be a descendant of the original Doric invaders who settled and created the city. This required the number of Spartan citizens to usually not exceed more then six or seven thousand people at any time. The non-citizens outnumbered the citizens, but they were kept in check by the strong Spartan military force. Sparta produced what most say to be the most iconic military in ancient history. They are known for their bravery, professionalism, and skill: a reputation well deserved. They proved themselves, many times, that they were the best of the Greek hoplite warriors. Spartan political power didn’t peek until the 6th to 4th century BC. However Spartan military power had its roots in the system much earlier. Unlike Athens, Sparta’s economy depended on conquering other people and farming, as the land Sparta sat on was not enough to feed all of it’s people. Considering...
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...Athens and Sparta existed from 2000 B.C. to 404 B.C. Sparta came around when the helots were conquered in a village that was named Sparta which became their capital. Athens were sea traders and were big on trade, which might have been a reason why their city-state came about. Sparta was located in a village down in a valley. They were a rigid and highly militarized society. Their location may have helped explain why Sparta developed different from Athens. Athens was an attic peninsula that was built inland. Their city-state was built around the rocky hill of Acropolis. Sparta was ruled by two kinds. One king led the army, while the other took care of the matters at home. The Council of Elders were made up of 28 male citizens over 60. They were usually wealthy and high in power. They proposed laws and served as a criminal court. An assembly consisted of all male citizens over 30 voted on those laws proposed by the Council of Elders to accept or reject them. The helots in Sparta hated the Spartans and what they did, because they had no say and were treated as a low class. Athens was a democracy ruled by Cleisthenes. What he first did was divide Athen’s citizens into 10 tribes. Then each tribe chose 50 men. And those men formed what we call the Council of Five Hundred. The members served for one year and couldn’t be chosen more than twice. They proposed laws to the assembly, but the assembly had the final word. The court became more democratic also. Jurors were citizens chosen by...
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...At birth the evaluation of the baby began immediately to determine if they were fit to become soldiers down the road in their life. If a child was the slightest bit deformed or did not appear to have the strength that Spartan warriors desired, it would be abandoned on the side of a mountain. Infanticide was a very common practice back in Ancient Sparta and the idea was to filter out the weak links in society. By doing this they better themselves for battle because one weak soldier could cause a catastrophe for they wouldn’t be able to defend Sparta properly. This would determine that the society could concentrate solely on members that would be able to contribute to the military community and eventually protect Sparta. The weak had no...
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...World Civilization 101 Jeremy Haskett 5/3/15 Sparta was a warrior society in ancient Greece. The empire peaked after defeating Athens, in the Peloponnesian War. Culture in Sparta focused on loyalty to the state and military service. Sparta had three main groups: the Spartans, the Helots and the Perioeci. Spartans were full citizens of Sparta, while the Helots were slaves. The Perioeci, however, were neither. The Perioeci, worked as craftsmen and traders. They crafted the Spartan weapons. Healthy male citizens went into a state-sponsored education system, known as the Agoge. The school system emphasized obedience, endurance, courage and self-control. The Helots, were fellow Greeks, who the Spartans had conquered. The Spartans’ way of life would not have been possible without the Helots. They performed all the day-to-day tasks, and any unskilled labor that was required. This kept society functioning. They were farmers, domestic servants, nurses and military attendants. There were a significantly more Helots than Spartans. Helots were often mistreated and brutalized and oppressed. This was to prevent an uprising. Spartans humiliated the Helots several ways, such as forcing them to get extremely drunk and making them do foolish things in public. Spartans were even allowed to kill Helots if they were too smart or fit. (Sparta. 2015). In Spartan society the children of Sparta were children of the state more than that of their parents. They were raised to be soldiers, and were...
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...The Peloponnesian War was a conflict between the Greek city-states, Athens and Sparta, from 431 BC that brought an end to the Hellenic age of Pericles and his empire by the succession of Sparta by the end of the war. Thucydides is seen as a ‘proto-realist’, one of the first realists in the study of politics that wrote in a more theoretical sense, as well as the founding father of International Relations. His study on the History of the Peloponnesian War provides awareness of the conflict and various analyses on the causes of the war by observing the strategic interaction between the states, hierarchy amongst the states along with legitimacy and levels of power to determine the pattern of their relations. Although there are undeniably numerous differences between Thucydides era and our world system today, Thucydides persists to influence contemporary international relations, namely Realism, with many realists frequently referring to the Melian Dialogue when advocating a power-based approach. With Thucydides often portraying insights into human nature, many scholars use his findings as a guide that is still relevant today due to the generality of self-interest, fear and power maximisation that still occurs as it did previously. Thucydides’ relevance today has been greatly perceived through his impact upon political realism in his studies concerning the concept of power politics. Whilst political realism expresses the view that international relations is the battle of self-interested...
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...creation of the City; they are it’s property (like slaves) and it’s children, and the individual has no right to assert individual rights against the City. In his case justice is accepted as a compromise, and valued, not as good in itself, but for lack of power to do wrong; no man worthy of the name, who had that power, would ever enter into such a compact with anyone; he would be mad if he did. The general in the Athenian army and a greek historian, Thucydides believed the good life was self-sufficient; “the good man” was the strong man that could handle himself well in all circumstances, protect himself and his own, be generous with friends, and justly terrible to enemies. He chronicled the Peloponnesian war between Athens and Sparta, which he described as lengthy and empirical. His narration of events raised numerous questions when it came to justice when it applied to war and...
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...Sparta Any society that abuses their children should crumble. Sparta was an ancient Greek city-state that valued military strength above all else. They did not teach academics, farming, or anything else besides military tactics. The weaknesses outweigh the strengths because, they didn’t get a proper education, they abused the children, if the children were not strong at birth they were killed. The weaknesses of Sparta outweighed the strengths because, the Spartans lacked education. They had foreign teachers, they only learned for practical reasons and, all other forms of education were banned from the country. Books and treatises were included in this. It states in document D that [The Spartans] learned to read and write for purely practical reasons: but all other forms of education they banned from the country, books and treatises being included in this much a [foreign teachers]. How could the Spartans have to be able to steal food and not get caught? If they were caught, they were beaten, I just don't think that that is very fair at all. How could beat a person for following your orders?...
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...Sparta is great! They are kind to all of their people, they are all very educated, and they spend a lot of time as families together. That’s exactly what Sparta is, but the exact opposite. A few reasons why the weaknesses outweigh the strengths are that Sparta is actually very violent and abusive, Spartans lack education severely, and the boys were taken away from their families at a young age To begin with, the Spartans were very abusive. They have trained for war for years upon years, and are very successful, that is if they survive the training. If the training children did something wrong, they got whipped sometimes to the point of death. On document D, paragraph three, it says: ”The boys of Sparta were lashed with whips during the entire day at the altar of Artemis Orthia, frequently to the point of death, and they bravely endured this, cheerful and proud, vying with one another.” They didn’t treat each other well, and they usually die because of such events. Secondly, the Spartans lack education. On document D, paragraph 1, it says:”[The Spartans] learned to read and write for purely practical reasons: but all other forms of education they banned from the country, books and treatises being...
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...What would you think of a government that inspected your baby boys to see if you got to keep them, and then took them away from you at age seven? I know I wouldn’t like it. But that was just how it went in Sparta, whether you liked it or not. That is the question I have to answer in this essay: Education in Sparta: Did the Strengths Outweigh the Weaknesses? I will explain the age that boys went to school, how important physical fitness was, and other interesting, and sometimes odd, facts. In the end though, I am surprised that Sparta made it as a city since they had such different laws. According to Document A, “A [Spartan’s] son was nurtured by his parents only until he was seven years old.” Then he was taken to state-controlled education,...
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...The Ancient Greek Civilization Can you imagine 7,000 Spartans holding off 150,000 Persians at the Battle of Thermopylae? It is true. The Ancient Greeks held off one of the most powerful armies of that time so Greece would survive. Greek geography, the city-states, the concept of acropolis, government, military strategy, philosophy, and religion were all contributing factors in the creation and survival of the Greek city-state lifestyle. The geography and climate of Ancient Greece influenced the development of Greek civilization. Mountains separated Greece into regions where the Ancient Greeks settled and formed separate city-states and types of government. The mountains and the peninsula of Ancient Greece isolated Greek society from other city-states and also helped to keep them safe from enemy attack. Transportation over the rocky land was difficult, much of the land was not suitable for farming, and there were limited natural resources. The lack of natural resources and the difficulty of traveling by land caused the Ancient Greeks to depend more on the sea. Ancient Greece was surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea on three sides. Much of the land of Ancient Greece was linked by the sea and the sea also linked Ancient Greece to other societies. The Ancient Greeks became skilled sailors, fishermen, and tradesmen. The climate of Ancient Greece was moderate all year long and there was adequate rainfall. Due to the mild climate, Greek men spent much of...
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...Research Essay Question: 3.) To what extent were Spartan woman essential to the success of the Spartan state? Introduction Spartan woman out of all the Greeks were said to be the strongest mentally and physically for their time, there rules and responsibilities were flexible and they had more rights compared to any other Greek woman of that time and were treated equal and had the right to learn and be trained in self-defence and played many sports like Spartan man, which became essential to the success of the Spartan state. In 405 BC Sparta defeated and conquered the Athens and ruled for around 30 years in the ancient Greek society, with this the woman of the Spartan state helped achieve this goal with their skills and hardships which...
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...In 323 BC durIng the Hellenistic period, two major city-states, that were only 150 miles apart, had very different ideas of government (“Life in Two City” 260). The Greek cities, Athens and Sparta both treated women exceedingly different. Most of the other city-states were more similar to Athens. There was about 2-3 that were like Sparta, but, these other city-states had a bigger population than Sparta (Fleck & Hanssen 2007). They may have done this because of where they live, but not only that they had different views on subjects and opinions on how to run their region. Athens was located near the Aegean Sea, which led them to greatly appreciate the opportunity to travel. They could now learn and educate others about art, literature, and architect which they were grateful for since they were very important things to them. In addition to trading ideas, Athens also got very influential with many other city-states by trading goods with them that created strong and positive relations with them....
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...immortal for example is 1,000 of them were to be killed in 1 battle they would be replaced for the next battle which would confuse and instil fear in the enemies. Persian myriads consisted of 10 regiments, each had 1,000 men which were individually commanded by a hazarapatis (commander of a thousand). Each of these regiments were also further divided into units based on the decimal system which also had their own commanders. The greatest strength of the Persian army was its incredibly high mobility and its high numbers of archers which were infamous for being able to darken the sun with their incredibly dense arrows, however this did come at a cost as the Persians needed to be practically unprotected to have such high mobility and their high numbers of archers generally meant that there were also friendly casualties and so many archers meant less soldiers that were meant for close quarters and so if an army did push up enough they would easily be able to mow down the Persian archers. The Greeks were led by King Leonidas who was the king of Sparta from about 490 bc until his death at the Battle of Thermopylae against the Persian army in 480bc. His father was Anaxandridas II. The total number of Greek soldiers and where they are from is shown below in the table. Modern historians generally consider Diodorus’ calculation to be a lot more realistic and is closer to the approximation of 7,000 soldiers in comparison to Heredotus’ calculation which is roughly 1,500 short of the 7,000...
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