Here is My essay comparing Sparta and Athens
I wrote about this because They are super cool city-states to research about, and it's fun to learn about how they lived.
Sparta and Athens were both Greek
city-states, yet they were very different. Athenians valued art, beauty,
reasons, and logic, while Spartans lived a life of simplicity. Sparta was
isolated on a plane between the mountains. They did not welcome visitors, and
didn’t trade. They were focused on war.
Athenians, on the other hand were very open. Since the soil near Athens was not
great for farming, they had to trade to fill their needs. Trading opened Athens
up to a lot of new ideas from around the world.
Sparta was a society dedicated to
war. At the age of 7, Spartan boys went to live in military barracks to be
trained as soldiers. While the women, stayed home and took care of everything.
Women had a lot of freedom in Sparta. They could own property’s and they can
choose who they want to marry.
In Athens women had very little
rights and freedom. They could not own property, banned from reading, and they
had no choice in marriage. Athenian boys learned how to read, write, play
music, they learned math, and fitness. Athenian girls stayed home and were
taught how to run a household from their mothers.
Sparta and Athens were both
military strong but in different ways. Sparta’s military was composed of
powerful, well-trained men. The Athenian army was almost as large as the
Spartan, but the Athenian navy was way more advanced and they dominated the
Mediterranean Sea.
In both Athens and Sparta, you had
to be a male citizen to participate in government. A Democracy developed in
Athens, and Oligarchy in Sparta. Oligarchy consisted of 2 kings and 28 men.
They were called council of elders, and had to be at least 60 years old.
Both
city-states had huge slave populations, with each home to about 100,000 slaves.
Slaves were at the bottom of the social order in both states, while military
men were at the top.
As we
can conclude, even though Athens and Sparta were both Greek city-states, they
were completely different. Sparta was focused on war and living a simple life,
while Athens valued people, and were very open.
Citing’s
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</span>https://www.reference.com
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</span>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euZh8KLB5eE
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</span>https://www.connexus.com (social studies)
