Spartan Militarism Rough Draft

Spartans military was a hard core and well rounded out military in its time. Part of the reason why they were so successful is because of their rigorous training each boy had to go through. Why I said boy is because the Spartan military training would start at age 7 for a chosen boy. The boy gets chosen to live in spartan society at birth. If the Spartans did not believe that the boy would be rounded out for their society they would leave the boy to die. During the boys training hazing and fighting was encouraged to help improve strength among the boys. During spartan training each boy was mainly taught mathematics, music, and how to fight. Also during their training, they would learn how to steal but without getting caught. If they were caught they would not be punished for stealing but only for getting caught. This type of training continues until the boys would become men. Which is at the age of 20 for the Spartan's. At age 20 Spartan men would have to pass a series of demanding

Spartans were very strict and set high expectations for their men in war. Taken from their families at the young age of 7 to train, the boys were whipped and starved. Spartans also enslaved people, called helots. The innocent helots were killed without warning. Spartans were so

In the fifth century BCE, Sparta developed in the Eastern Mediterranean. Sparta was limited in size (population), but its military was famous for its toughness. Even with a small population of an army of about 8,000 men, they managed to defend Sparta from incoming attacks. Unfortunately, Spartan boys were forced to join and receive training from age 7. Like the battle of Thermopylae, Sparta was able to shield itself, but all the warriors died.

First, I will be explaining about is the spartan warriors’ toughness. Instead of letting them to be pampered in the matter of clothing, he introduced the custom of wearing one garment (Doc B). Also, [Lycurgus] required such a moderate amount of [food] that the boys would know what is was to go with their hunger unsatisfied(Doc B). This was a major advantage of the Spartans.

Spartan's were a dominating army that were more strong then all of the of the other armies from different city-states. now we need to know what they did at home while the men were at war. It's like when the U.S. Army goes out for war, what do the rest of the military soldiers go when the rest are at war. This is something that we need to discover from the Spartans and we also need to know if the strengths outweighed the weaknesses or did not.

The slaves tried to revolt but were shut down by the Spartans even though they were so highly outnumbered. The Spartans began to train their soldiers differently. In case the slaves revolted again, the army could just slaughter the salves in battle. They began to train their soldiers at a younger age. They would be sorted out as soon as they were born and the strong would live with their mothers until they were seven while the weak were killed by being thrown off the top of a cliff. They were trained until they were twenty years old when they would be full time soldiers. At age thirty they would be matched up with a wife and attempt to produce strong baby boys with them. At age sixty a soldier would retire and become part of the council. Life expectancy was forty-five so not many people made it to sixty. While Sparta was growing the best army the world had ever seen, the Persian Empire had taken control from India to Turkey and planned to attack Greece next. Sparta helped the Greek city-states from being conquered by Persia which causes Persia to send a large army to attack Marathon. Athens wins the war after being more advanced in combat and Persia retreats. After a Persian civil war, Xerxes takes over as the Persian emperor and leads the largest army ever seen to attack Athens. Athenians take guard at Thermopylae and after one day of fighting, 300 Spartan soldiers tell the Athenians to fall farther back and they will stale as long as possible so they could

<br><br>In the beginning, Greek armies showed almost no pay structure. This was do to the fact that military participation was seen as a man 's duty to his city-state or as a form of taxation. Each man was required to provide his own armor for battle. There for only those who could afford armor and weapons could be in the army. Since most men could not afford armor, most could not participate. Those who could afford to participate had other forms of income. However there was a pay system in place by 445 or 444 BC in Athens. The pay system was enacted during a time of peace for Greece, just after the signing of the thirty year peace between the Delian League and the Peloponnesian League. The standard rate of pay seems to have been a drachma a day until it was cut in half in 413 BC. However the standard rate over time was between three obols (half a drachma) to a full drachma a day for a hoplite soldier.<br><br>In Sparta, the military was a way of life. From an early age, children were trained to be strong and to have good fighting skills. With most of their population being helots, or serfs, it was necessary to have a well-organized and highly trained fighting force to put down any revolts. Therefore, even though the Spartan military was comparatively small, it was very strong.<br><br>Athens derived her military strength from a strong navy. In 481 BC the city of Athens discovered a large silver mine on publicly owned land. Athens used this silver to build a fleet

The government in Sparta followed a very different coarse than that of the Athenians. It was controlled by an oligarchy in which the power was held by a group of five men called ephors. Working below the ephors was the Council of Elders and an Assembly. Male citizens over age sixty could serve on the Council while anyone, male or female, over the age of twenty could be a member of the Assembly. Though the citizens had little say in the decisions made by the government, the system worked effectively. Over the years, the Spartan's brutal reputation in war grew so great that other nations and city-states were too frightened to attack Sparta even though the Spartan army was no larger then eight thousand men. The Spartan Constitution called for all men to begin their military education at the age of seven, where they were trained to be tough and self-sufficient. Every man in the army fought with a great deal of passion for his country. Life in Sparta may have been rough, but the rest of the Greeks envied the Spartans for their simplicity, straight forwardness, and fanatical dedication. The beliefs of Sparta were oriented around the state. The individual lived and died for the state. The combination of this philosophy, the education of Spartan males, and the discipline of their army gave the Spartans the stability needed to survive in Ancient Greece.

The next factor that aided Sparta’s rise was the rigorous military training. A Spartan’s training began as an infant. The Gerousia, a Spartan council of elders, inspected every Spartan baby . Any child that was deemed weak, deformed, or sick would be left at mount Taygetus to die . Once the rest of the surviving children turned seven years old, they would be put into the agoge . The agoge was the rigorous military training that every Spartan man had to pass through before they became full Spartan

The author of “Life in Ancient Sparta”, Brian Walsh, talks about how life was for the ancient Spartans. Sparta was Greece’s military city-state. The lives of the Spartans was much different than the lives of average Greeks such as the Athenians. First of all, the men and women of Sparta began building a military society, mainly due to the helots, who were slaves. The Spartans became part of this system right from birth.

An important contributing factor to an army's success is armor for defense. An army can have skilled soldiers, but cannot be successful without the right armor. Roman and Greek armies wore similar types of armor. The Roman and Greek foot soldiers wore a square breastplate on their torso. While the Romans only wore one greave on their left leg, Greeks wore greaves on both legs. A greave was a sheet of metal worn to protect the legs (Horsepower: Harnessed…). Soldiers wear greaves even in current day. Recently, the greaves have been upgraded to protect the legs from ‘Improvised explosive devices,’ such as those in Iraq (Frost, Quad Guard). Roman soldiers wore a helmet that protected the neck, and came around to protect their face. The Greek’s helmets were more full and protective than the Roman helmets. Greek helmets covered their entire head and only left small

King Leonidas, from Zack Snyder’s film, 300, once said, “This is Sparta.” 300 explains the historical story of Leonidas, King of Sparta, who leads a small force of three hundred men—his personal bodyguards—to a place known as the Hot Gates, to defend against a numberless horde of hostile Persians in combat to defend Greece. The King Leonidas and his 300 Spartans all died honorably while the Persians were able to get past the Spartans. The Spartans were citizens of ancient Sparta during ancient Greece. The movie shows the difficulty of a Spartan’s training by showing children fighting wolves and other children. Although this is a Hollywood movie, there are some parts of the movie’s portrayal of Spartan training that are historically accurate. Spartan training was ruthless and demanding for the men of Sparta. Training began at the age of seven and the children were taken away from their families. This is completely different from how the United States modern militaries train new recruits. The modern military training should not be combined with Spartan training because the Spartan’s were ruthless in the training of children, they used slaves as training dummies, and took individualism from their soldiers.

Training is a vital ordeal in everything you do from sports to a new job that everyone can do different. This is the case for the Spartans and Romans. Before Spartans are even born their skill sets are already delegated. The Spartans believed in competition and the winners were held in high praise. Thus having the strong men marring the strong women and the fast men marring the fast women in hope of having a son share their physical attribute. After birth the babies are inspected by the Spartan Elders, if imperfect the babies would be thrown off a cliff said to be not fit for battle. When the child then reaches the age of seven he is sent to a military boarding school where he is taught to fight. The Romans did nothing as formidable as the Spartans. The

After an embarrassing defeat at the battle of Hysiai Sparta went through great military change, these changes dramatically changed all other areas of Spartan life, turning Sparta into a military focused state. This militaristic influence impacted greatly on Spartan education, essentially aiming to mass produce the perfect solider. The education and training of Spartan boys aged as young as 7 in the agoge became the crucial

they were in a narrow pass and they had an almost impenatrable defenese with there shields, they were very well trained (from age 8 taking as a young boy) with 40lb bronze shields persian army had wicker shields (very weak) and were untrained mostly farmers. The spartans only had to swing and stab as the persians came running after