Athens was very intellectual which made them superior to other city-states. Athens was a small city-state located on the coast of the aegean sea. They were more social than sparta because they weren’t isolated. The city-state that was superior was Athens because of their geography, lifestyle and government. Between the two city-states of athens and sparta I would have to choose Athens. Athens had the geographical advantage because of the placement of their city-state. Specifically Doc D states,“Athens became rich because Attica also had valuable sources of silver, lead and marble. Athens also had the biggest navy in Greece, because of this Athens had rich and fertile farmland to plant crops and collect minerals from their land. Because of this it allowed athens to progressively get richer because of trade also people came to see Athens architecture. Another reason why Athens had a geographical advantage is because of their…show more content… Specifically, according to Doc B, “They studied public speaking and drama and reading and writing. Sons of nobles went to high school for four more years of learning about the sciences and the arts and politics and government.” Now if Athens had people going to schools they would most likely have educated people and they could they could become more advanced like they build stuff to protect them or help in agriculture or the building of their city-state. I would also prefer to live in Athens because of the food and luxuries. According to Doc G, “Athenians enjoyed luxuries and foods from all over their empire. Wealthy Athenian homes were quite nice with an inner courtyard.”This supports that Athens is better because I would like to live in luxury and wealth, plus the people were probably more relaxed due to all of these nice things so they probably wouldn’t lash out in stress. In addition to lifestyle,government is another example of why Athens is
