... based on conditioning, they lived lives of necessity and rarely did people come or go. Spartan government reflects that of simple communism, that exploits its serfs, Helots. Spartans didn't have family lives, because Spartan men were soldiers, it was a barracks society. Only through military service could they achieve citizenship at the age of 30. The Agoge system was military training that ... a necessity to control and hold down the non-Spartans, they were out numbered by slaves and neighbors. Sparta exploited the Helots and Perkioikoi, the Helots served as slaves on the farms that we...

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... in the army. Spartan children were all trained to serve in the military as professional soldiers, where needs of the military and the state come before the needs of the family. The Athenian military was structured much differently than Sparta's. Their military grew through voluntary enlisting. They didn't have the ground troop numbers that Sparta had, but their navy was much ... city killing mass amounts of people, including their leader, Pericles. In the end, with the Athenians hiding behind the walls, morale dropping daily, and watching the Spartan army destroy their farms and homes, ...

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