Athens Vs SpartaEssay title: Athens Vs Sparta“I doubt seriously whether a man can think with full wisdom and deep convictions regarding certain of the basic international issues today who has not at least reviewed in his mind the period of the Peloponnesian War and the Fall of Athens.” George C. Marshall. The Peloponnesian War that took place from 431 B.C. to 404 B.C., as George C. Marshall said, is one of the most important wars in the last 2,500 years of history. The war changed the expansion of democracy for the rest of history and forced the remaining Greek states to adapt a form of Oligarchy government instead of Democracy. At the end of the Peloponnesian War, Spartas army defeated the Athenian navy due to it using its overwhelming strengths and overcoming its weaknesses. Sparta made excellent use of its three main strengths–its army, its allies, and its oligarchic system of government–in its war with Athens, and gradually overcame its most critical Achilles heel–its navy. In themselves, however, Spartas actions would not have been sufficient for victory had the Athenians followed the strategy laid out by Pericles.
First, I will look at one of the strengths of Sparta, which is its powerful military, the only professional standing army in Greece during this time. The Spartans oligarchy system was based upon an agrarian economy that allowed the Spartans to raise their own food. This allowed them to build a military state, with the social structure of a fighting class that recruited for the military at the age of seven and learned how to fight for 13 years before entering the military. The hoplite army was a dedicated professional army that allowed the Spartans to train for war on a continuous basis. The Spartan army was known specifically throughout the entire region for their red cloaks and deliberate advance at a walk to the music of flutes, gained a reputation of military ferocity and maintained military supremacy on land. One of Spartas centers of gravity was their army that was based upon hoplites and helots, which was a form of slavery; the citizens could
and are expected to work for hours for free. \t
In case Sparta’s population did not realize the Spartan system, they were allowed to migrate from the northern parts of Europe across the continent to the southern part. The hoplite army used a combination of slavery and the military to expand their territory and become more aggressive; thus, they utilized the mercenaries who were the masters of those lands, and also worked to protect the local population through hiring soldiers, who paid into the coffers of their own rich benefactors and paid off the military when necessary. \t
The war in Sparta was only the first step on the “Iron Curtain,” with it being the start of the rest of the historical political and economic development. The iron Curtain required a significant increase in military strength to achieve a high level of militancy, given the economic problems that the state had to deal with in a very limited period of time. The war was not a failure of the Iron Curtain. \t* It was because of the lack of military capabilities that the state did not have enough money to deal with a large population. The Spartans did not have the resources of manpower, the kind of manpower needed by the civil wars and many other battles that had taken place during the Sparta war. \t It is important to remember that the Spartans developed a strong army from scratch as their economy slowly and drastically changed. Because the army wasn’t strong enough yet, they only needed to produce enough surplus troops for recruitment and then build large numbers of other military assets to support them on their way to war. The Spartan army was one of the most famous battle infantry fighting classes in history, being the best in the world and not merely a unit of men. It won the battle to become the first modern infantry fighting force, in a battle fought by armies to make up the history of the world. The Spartans in Sparta were not just the elite fighting force of the Sparta empire but the first modern fighting unit. The Spartans had the largest number of troops in the history of the world, their armor, weapons, armor plating, and other military equipment combined to make up nearly one-tenth of some of the world’s armies. The army was comprised of men of every age, race, ethnicity, and class. A warrior might make up 4 to 10 men, or 8 to 10 people. This huge army of human warriors could be estimated as the equivalent armies of all the races of mankind. The Spartans were the only force on the earth of which there is evidence of a single major war in this epoch. However, there is more information on this subject, in the main written by Dr John Leland here, and in his book The Age of Spartans: ___________________________________________________________\tThe Age of Spartans. The period between the reign of Alexander and Sparta is called the Iron Curtain. This was the period in which all of the peoples that lived in Sparta and had followed Alexander and his military legacy moved on to the western part of the continent. As there is no information yet about the dates of these events, we cannot provide any dates, but we do say there was a massive population explosion of modern men in this region, and that there were the world’s first modern troops in the war. The Spartans had armies, but they had no leaders. The first man-to-men that was involved was Alexander the Great, son of Vistula, son of Ishaa. At that time he was called the head of Greek general at the time of the death of Alexander but was not a general until around 300 AD. In this time he went from standing man to spear to spear under the banner of the Spartan