HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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Question
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the government had 2 tyrants
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a small group held the most power
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military strength was valued
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it was organized as a city-state
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Detailed explanation-1: -Sparta was an oligarchy. The state was ruled by two hereditary kings of the Agiad and Eurypontid families, both supposedly descendants of Heracles and equal in authority, so that one could not act against the power and political enactments of his colleague.
Detailed explanation-2: -Answer and Explanation: Sparta was a military oligarchy. The military ruled over Sparta’s people. There were, however, two branches of Spartan government-the Appella, the assembly, and the Gerousia, the elder council.
Detailed explanation-3: -One of the first oligarchies in history is that of Sparta, which developed the concept alongside its rival Athens, and essentially provided a counterpoint to Athenian democracy.
Detailed explanation-4: -The sparsity of ruins from antiquity around the modern city reflects the austerity of the military oligarchy that ruled the Spartan city-state from the 6th to the 2nd century bce.