southern Greece called Laconia. Life was very different in ancient Sparta than it was in the rest of ancient Greek city-states. The Spartans were proud‚ fierce‚ capable warriors. No great works of art came out of Sparta. But the Spartans‚ both men and women‚ were tough‚ and the Greeks admired strength. The population of Sparta consisted of three main groups: the Spartans‚ or Spartiates‚ who were full citizens; the Helots‚ or serfs/slaves; and the Perioeci‚ who were neither slaves nor citizens. The Perioeci
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Case 20-1 Spartan Heat Exchangers Inc. Aaron Nelson Summary Spartan‚ who was a leading designer and manufacturer of specialized industrial heat transfer equipment earns sales revenues of $25M. The company has prided themselves on creating a Make-to-Order system that allows customers the option of customizing their orders to their needs. Customization is what gives Spartan the competitive edge over their competitors. Meanwhile‚ however‚ countries like Korea and Europe are currently changing industry
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different than Athens because it was much more focused on safeness of the people. Sparta’s powerful military supports this and provides the safeness of the people. Without this military‚ the welfare of the people wouldn’t be protected. For example‚ Spartans in order to have a military needed strong and fit men to fight in battle. They were trained in many harsh conditions and had tough lifestyles to mold them into shape. Now with this strong protection or defense‚ rights were given to the people such
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work on farms and as servants of the Spartans. The Messenians became helots by the 7th century‚ when Sparta took full control of Messenia. The Spartans turned Sparta into a military state by 6th century B.C. to make sure they would not loose control of what they had succeeded in conquering. Training for the military began at birth when state officials decided whether a baby was fit to live and he would be left to die if they felt that he was not fit for Spartan military life. Between the ages of
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based on their ways of living‚ their government styles‚ and their military. Athenians and the Spartans have different ways of living as they focus on different morals. At a small age Spartan boys are taken from their families and forced into the Spartan standing army. On the other hand‚ the Athenian boys are not mandated into the military of their country and are able to get a good education. Spartans are focused on their military more than their interactions with other countries around them. “Sparta
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authorised to kill helots‚ especially those who appeared to have the kinds of qualities that might fit them to lead a helot rebellion. c. Describe the education of Spartan boys 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
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Aristotle said regarding Spartan women “…nearly two-fifths of the whole country is in the hands of women…”4 and Plutarch said “…For he exercised the girls’ bodies with races and wrestling and discus and javelin throwing‚ so that the embryos formed in them would have a strong start in strong bodies and develop better…and would cope well and easily with childbirth.” The way that the women of Sparta are described paints a very different picture of women in Greece. Spartan women had many freedoms and
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Athenians and Spartan Differences Today‚ I would like to talk about a Spartans and Athenians. I will be talking about Athenians and Spartan’s right to participate‚ similar government structure between the two and how they both differed. “At Spartas peak around 500 BC the size of the city would have been some 20‚000-35‚000 freee residents” (2017‚ April 10). And by 432 BC in Athens and Attica there were 150‚000 Athenians around 50‚000 aliens and more than 100‚000 slaves (n.d.). Athens & Sparta’s right
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At Thermopylae‚ the allied Greek nations deployed a small force of between four and seven thousand Greek heavy infantry against the invading Persian army of two million. Leading the Greeks was a force of three hundred Spartans‚ chosen because they were all "sires" — men who had to have sons who could preserve their blood line‚ should they fall in battle. Thermopylae was the only way into Greece for the Persian army‚ and presented the perfect choke point — a narrow pass bordered by a sheer mountain
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structure .The main goal of the Spartans was to have an elite state of soldiers. While the Athenians main objective was to have a society that was versatile‚ skilled and liberal. 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
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