Ancient Greece Spartans

Sparta was a very different kind of city state when compared to the rest of the city states. The ancient Greek Spartans were basically descendants from the Dorians. The life of the citizens of Sparta was a particularly strict one which was similar to the military. The young boys would be taken away from their homes at an extremely early age to start their training with the military. The young girls were also forced to stay healthy so that they could produce children who were healthy.

The ancient Greek Spartans had three types of classes in the entire society. The first was the upper class. This class consisted of the people who had a voice to project and their opinions would also be heard. The lower class which was known as the perioeci which meant neighbors was ones who werent complete members of the society. They were well off because of the economies of trade.

Finally there were the Hemlots who were basically used as slaves for the upper class. These Hemlots were actually seen as the enemy even though they were simply slaves.

Like the other city states, over population was a really big problem for ancient Greek Spartans. The other city states would found daughter cities and they would try and eradicate the problem but then Sparta had decided to go for a different approach. During their first Messian war Sparta had gained fertile land and lots of Hemlots.

In the battle of Hysiae against Argos Sparta was defeated and the Hemlots had revolted which had resulted in another war in Messian and the Spartans were able to suppress the revolt. After this war Sparta had isolated itself from the rest of the Greek city states.

Even though this city state had managed to become quite powerful the number of Spartans was quite small. The foreign military actions were completely avoided and suspicion would start to arise from anything which was foreign. The social life of the ancient Greek Spartans had changed completely as the city state had turned into a military state.

Boys who were as young as six had to go to military school. In the end Sparta managed to become the leader o the Peloponnese in an attempt to save the dwindling population. This was carried out by a military pact which accepted support of each other as well as smaller cities.

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