Sparta
Friday, December 7, 2012
From the moment of a Spartan girl or a boy came into the world, the military and the city state were the center of every Spartan citizen’s life. Both male and female babies were determined by city state if they were strong enough to be Spartan citizens. If the infants were too week or sick, they were abandoned in the country side to die. This was a very common thing in the Greek world because Sparta made it an official government policy.
Sparta fell because it could not maintain an adequate number of its warrior elite similars. They relied heavily on helots to make up the numbers and these helots went from slaves to free men mercenaries.Sparta made too many enemies with all around them and had internal bickering with non elites.Spartas enemies learnt their tactics and how to beat them over decades.Militarily the tactic sending too few men makes victory impossible and death inevitable, even if its heroic Sparta did not have an adequate economic income
Thursday, December 6, 2012
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