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Are we continuing?

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Yes, they had no pleasures or luxury, but it made them strong for war. Reasoning on why they won.

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Also, Spartans have the ephors kept order.

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The Spartans rule was short lived, on the last page of the packet it says that in 371 BC the city of Thebes defeated the Spartans.

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The city-state of Sparta was larger than the Athens.

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The Athens lost in war made the Spartans the rulers of Greece.

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In Sparta if a child is born sick they are taken to a mountain to be left there to die, they don't do that in Athens. In Athens they try to make the child better so it can grow up happy.

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In Athens the people are allowed to speak to foreigners and they trade frequently.

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Spartans were not allowed to have any kind of luxury or pleasure because the government was afraid it would make them soft. They also weren't even allowed to go and speak to people from other countries in case the foreigners ideas weakened the Spartans obedience.

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With the Spartan oligarchy the citizens were not allowed to think for themselves. They were taught how to think and what to think.

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Yes, they stressed physical fitness for their men, but what benefited their women?

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Not to add, that women were eventually able to engage in business activities.

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The athenians stressed individual thought and they taught art, music, literature, and writing. They also stressed physical fitness for their men.

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But, according to "A School of Conquest", Sparta had obedient men and women because of strict rules. Athen's didn't let their women get their proper education and the health they needed. All Spartan women remained healthy from physical training, for becoming healthy mothers.

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Athens is better civilization because they let the people help make the governmental decisions.