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Athens & Sparta

 

            
             Sparta was founded by the Dorians who occupied the Peloponnesus of Greece., the Spartans conquered nearby regions and made people be their slaves. Since the slaves outnumbered the Spartans by as many as 10 to 1, they set up a military government in case the slaves revolted. The Spartan aim was to make strong-bodied and fearless men and women. Sickly babies were left on a hilltop to die. Spartan women could not become citizens. They were trained to in gymnastics and physical endurance. The Spartans thought strong women would produce muscular babies. The Spartans were the bravest warriors in Greece. All of Greece admired the Spartans" courage and obedience, yet they also criticized the one-sidedness of their life.
             Athens was very different from Sparta. They believed that people lived empty lives if they failed to use their minds and develop all their talents. Athens was the shining center of Greek culture. They were the teachers of Greece. The Athenians were proud of their political freedom and their artists, playwrights, poets, and thinkers. The Athenians were the first people to develop some kind of a democracy. Other city-states used this idea to establish some peace within their region. Some of the most brilliant scientists and philosophers originated in Athens. Some of these people were Thales, Pythagoras, Democritus, Hippocrates, Socrates, and the Sophists.
            


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1. Oppression Of Women As Far Back As Athens And Sparta

... a highly restricted society. Schools teach us that modern democracies are modeled on Athens, while military dictatorships are modeled after Sparta. However, history shows us that women had much more liberty in Sparta than in Athens. In fact, the democracy of Athens was available only to free men who were citizens of Athens. Moreover, to claim citizenship, an Athenian had to prove that both his parents were ... amount of domestic freedom. For one thing, their husbands didn't live at home. Women could own property, in fact, they owned more than a third of the land in Sparta. Unlike the wo...

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2. athens vs sparta

... , just as an older person is superior to a younger, more immature person." One way that Athens and Sparta really differed was in their idea of getting along with the rest of the Greeks. Sparta seemed content to keep to itself and provide army and assistance when necessary. Athens, on the other hand, wanted to control more and more of the land around them. This ... eventually led to war between all the Greeks. This was the Peloponnesian War. After many years of hard fighting, Sparta won the war. In true Greek spirit, Sparta refused to burn the city of Athens. Rather, the culture and spiri...

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3. Athens Versus Sparta

... and wide as possible past the city. Athenians jumped at the chance to travel. They were excited to spread their thoughts and to gain from others. Athens created great relationships with other city-states. In contrast, Sparta was more segregated. It was placed on a plain between the mountains and the ocean in the piece of Greece known as the Peloponnesus. Spartans were ... their moms until around six or seven. After that, young men went to school until about 14. Teachers taught them reading writing, mathematics, and literature. Sparta was different from Athens in almost every way, starti...

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4. Sparta And Athens

Ancient Greece was comprised of small city-states, of which Sparta and Athens were two. Athens was renowned as a center of wisdom and learning. The people of Athens were interested in arts, music, and intellectual pursuits. Sparta, on the other hand, was recognized for its military strength. A Spartan's life was centered on the state, because he lived and died to serve the state. Although the competing ... individually different as well as governmentally diverse, they both managed to become dominating powers in Ancient Greece. This essay will compare and contrast both Athens and Sparta in reg...

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5. Athens and Sparta

... , but had totally different views on life and lifestyles. There were differences in the family life of people and paradigm of Athenians and Spartans. Sparta was Drastically unlike Athens and all other city-states in this aspect. In Sparta the men were full time soldiers. Even though there were few Spartans, there well trained warriors were feared by other city-states. The way ... , and families were kept together as having war-ready men was not as important. No similarities can be found within the social aspect of culture between Athens and Sparta. Athens was much like the rest of Greece,...

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6. The Ancient Civilzations of Sparta and Athens

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7. Sparta and Athens compared

... . Neither was typical of Greek polis, both were large in comparison to other Greek city-states. Sparta restricted citizenship and developed a territorial state. Athens developed a democratic constitution. Both were similar in they used Greek language, alphabet, along with similar religious and mythic traditions. Sparta is a located in Laconia, in the south central Peloponnesian plateau, its size and population is small ... war capabilities. Due to its closed citizenship and as a result shrinking gene pool, Spartan society eventually closed itself out. Athens was in Attica, Athens did not ...

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8. The Development of Athens and Sparta

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9. Sparta

... soon became at the mercy of Athens. A few times the Athenians called for help from the Spartans. On one of those occasions, the Spartan soldiers were instrumental in saving all of Greece from the Persians after the Persians had sacked and burned Athens. Sparta was a direct democracy similar to Athens. Both governments only allowed males to vote. In Athens, men could vote at age eighteen ... while men in Sparta had to be thirty. Sparta's age requirement was better because it put the power to vote in the hands of older, more ... . This is because only one ninth of the eligible citizens ac...

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10. Sparta VS. Athens

... 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 more dominant. Sparta realized that they couldn't match Athens impressive navy, so Archidamus delayed the battle and worked on extending Sparta's alliances in hopes of expanding their own navy. He realized ... strength to take out Athenian allied cities and capture all the land outside the walls of Athens. This tactic froze Athens supply of food and also any additional reven...

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