Sparta Strengths And Weaknesses Essay

Any society that abuses children should crumble, and fall.Sparta was a city-state inside of Greece, it was strong to a point but every strong city state has its weakness. The weakness of Sparta outweighed their strengths because their children lacked education, they abused their children and their society ended after 300 year. I believed they should've fallen.

To being with the Spartans had a learning system, a terrible one to add. In document D the text states that “ they learned to read and write but all other forms of fiction they banned from the country such as books, foreign teachers.” They did not allow the children to go to plays to even learn about Sparta or anything in the plays. How did Sparta become this well known city state when they did not know anything else besides reading, writing and their military system? They could not leave Sparta to learn new things or see new things. They were stuck in Sparta, some people could not go and plays or learn anything …show more content…
In the background essay the text states, “The size of the Spartans army sharply reduced, some estimates running as low as 1,000 men.”The Spartan Army and also the city-state fell and crumbled, it didn't survive the battles and wars it went through. The reasons why they fell and crumbled, the battles they faced severely reduced their population. In the agoge they had to do brutal war-games and they stopped near death, or some after death. They left many babies outside in the cold and they died. All of these factors lead to the downfall of Sparta. However, my three reasons listed above, the Spartans abuse if its young boys shows in, the end the Spartans weakness outweighed its strengths. The one thing that was strong with Sparta was that their military was great. They had great formation in their army, they used the phalanx to protect themselves for arrows and swords. Although they had a strong army there weaknesses outweighed their

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