WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Introduction 2500 years ago, two totally different city-states dominated Greece. Athens was an open society, and Sparta was a closed one. Athens was democratic, and Sparta was ruled by a select few.

Detailed explanation-2: -The people of Athens valued art, culture, and education. The people of Sparta valued strength, simplicity, and military skills. Government Athens was a democracy, though only free men could take part in government. Sparta was primarily a military state.

Detailed explanation-3: -Athens and Sparta were, at one point, the two most powerful city-states in Ancient Greece. They came into conflict in the Peloponnesian war in 431 B.C., which raged on for 28 years. Aside from going to war, Athens and Sparta also worked together and shared as many similarities as differences.

Detailed explanation-4: -The differences between Athens and Sparta eventually led to war between the two city-states. Known as the Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.E.), both Sparta and Athens gathered allies and fought on and off for decades because no single city-state was strong enough to conquer the others.

Detailed explanation-5: -Sparta was a city-state located in the southeastern Peloponnese region of ancient Greece. Sparta grew to rival the size of the city-states Athens and Thebes by subjugating its neighboring region of Messenia. Though Sparta absorbed this population, it did not integrate the conquered people into society.