-Sparta was surrounded by the mountain Taygetos which provided a source of stone (limestone and marble) and provided a defensive barrier for the Spartan state.…
The strengths of Sparta are that they had an advanced military, they respected and trained the women, and they trained the soldiers when the soldiers when they were young. The phalanx was a very large rectangular mass which was composed with with heavy armory,spears, and all other weapons whilst pushing forward. Although they lacked formal education, they took down all of the strongest city states…
These two regions had good agricultural land which provided crops in abundance. These crops included barley, wheat, grapes and figs. Apart from the agricultural products, they also provided meat, as they grazed sheep, goats and pigs, which also supplied products such as milk, skins, wool, hair, fat, cheese etc. Iron, needed for weapons and armours was found in the Spartan territory itself, although they did have to import copper and tin to make bronze, which may have been for manufacturing utensils, statues, etc. Thus, it could be concluded that Sparta was a self sufficient area enclosed by natural barriers which protected rather than isolated it.…
The education of Spartan boys was a brutal experience for all the boys; they were all to be trained well enough to be able to serve Sparta. Training for the Spartan military began at the age of seven and continued until the age of sixty, for those who lived that long. Usually the boys would be hit to help them toughen up or just because they were out of line, they trained and fought naked, ate a modest amount of food, entered public competitions, wore little amounts of clothing (loin cloth) and travelled to places barefoot; the boys had to partake in these methods because in doing so they are making themselves much more stronger. Spartan boys were disciplined to a great extent in order to create tough…
The Spartan military was the only way of life for most of the Sparta people. A lot of great Spartan battles happened in their history. Their actions at the battle of Thermopylae in particular have a place in the modern culture and it is perhaps the most famous last stand in history.…
The Spartan culture was surrounded around warfare and military. Spartan children were trained from a very young age to be successful warriors. Boys were sent to a boot camp/boarding school (ague). The training in these boot camps helped the boys not to be weak, but instead to become warriors. The Spartan girls were given the same physical training as Spartan boys. Spartan women were taught to be healthy and strong individuals (Powell, 43) so that one day they can bear strong sons. The Spartan women were also given the opportunity to take charge of businesses when their men went away for war. However, despite their focus on the war, the Spartans were reluctant to stray far from their homes.…
From the beginning of Sparta, in 900 BC, until their fall, in 192 BC, they were the superior fighting warriors across the Mediterranean sea and in the European vicinity. The spartans were the strongest, most fierce, and most feared people in Europe at the time with a highly militarized lifestyle and society. The spartans were the ultimate “super soldiers” of their time, the reason for this being, from the age of 7 all boys were required to go to military training at the Agoge and train there until the age of 20, they also had unique and extremely effective formations, ways of protection, and weapons (shields, long spears, etc.) that would help them in any scenario one could think of.…
They became obsessed with military power, focusing on exercise, discipline and their ability to endure any hardship. Around Greece Spartans gained, and promoted, this reputation as a tough, unyielding and hardened society. Spartan warriors have been inspired many throughout history. Modern interpretations of the Spartans have typically whitewashed some of their more brutal intuitions and portrayed them as the saviors of Western culture. This honor, if applied to them along with the other Greek States, is not entirely unfair though as Greek culture would become the bases for Western…
Imagine being taken away from your family and your home when you were just seven years old. The Spartans may have built one of the finest militaries of the ancient world, but their culture was so harsh that the word “Spartan” has become synonymous with an austere way of life. Spartan society was carefully constructed around a strict moral code and sense of duty, and its people underwent extreme hardships and deprivation on their way to becoming accepted as full citizens. It is with this cruel way of life that lead to the greatest, hardest, and most disciplined warrior 's who ever existed in the ancient world.…
After the helots revolted, the Spartans had to develop a new way of life. There were almost 10 times the amounts of helots as compared to the free citizens. To do this, the Spartans made changes that turned their city into a military academy and camp. An official would decide if an infant was fit to survive, and if he was, he was taken from his home at age seven, and trained to become a warrior. Their constitution was mixed, with various parts of monarchy, oligarchy, and democracy. The goal of the new government in Sparta was to “win glory in war”.…
Sparta was an important part of Greece during the Archaic and Classical periods. Sparta was famous for the sheer power and strength of its military. Spartan hoplites (high-ranking soldiers) were professionally trained and sported distinctive red cloaks, long hair, and the lambda-emblazoned shields. Spartan warriors were among the most feared fighters in all of Greece. They fought with distinction at battles such as Thermopylae and Plataea in the early 5th century BCE. In Greek mythology, the founder of Sparta was Lacedaemon, a supposed “son of Zeus.”…
The Spartan Military was one of the most feared militaries of its time. Located in the southern region of the Peloponnesus, Sparta was centralized around military dominance. Beginning at a young age, Spartan boys were pushed both physically and mentally. Every day was a test. Lycurgus, a Spartan Tyrant, was revered as God with his reforms to transform Sparta into the ultimate weapon, militarization. The Spartan military was the most feared military in the world for their way of life, ruthless training, and strategic tactics.…
A garrison society along with built up tension will result in the inevitable fall of one of the most notorious nations of all time. Sparta was a place, a people like no other. The way in which they managed their daily affairs lead to restriction of rights. The Spartan Idealism and Spartan Law aided in the collapse of Sparta. " Sparta stood for the complete antithesis to Athens, with here brilliant culture, freedom-loving but fickle democracy and cult of the individual. Sparta was a model of stability, order and discipline or of reaction, regimentation and repression. The organization of your state is that of an army camp, not of people who live in a town' Plato"#. Sparta…
They were significant in the fact that they were the foundations of Spartan society. They supplied the whole Spartan society with food and assisted in conflicts and wars. Spartan men had to make a monthly contribution to the syssition. This came from the produce taken from the helot workers. The contribution allowed the Spartans to stay in the military mess, tying the functions of the helots into the…
civilization, the Spartan way of life was based off their vigorous training methods, and ruthless…