what time were the spartans around?

Answer 1

Check: http://www.bartleby.com/65/sp/Sparta.html

Answer 2

Sparta had the most powerful army in ancient Greece; it was the most powerful state before the rise of Athens, and many would argue that it remained so afterwards. Also, following the defeat of Athens in the First Peloponnesian War, it became a great naval power. Sparta and Athens were reluctant allies against the Persians, but became rivals thereafter. The greatest series of conflicts between the two states, which resulted in the dismantling of the Athenian Empire, is called the Peloponnesian War. Athenian attempts to control Greece and take over the Spartan role of 'guardian of Hellenism' ended in failure. The first ever defeat of a Spartan hoplite army at full strength occurred at the Battle of Leuctra in 371 BC, after which Sparta's position as the dominant Greek city-state swiftly disappeared with the loss of its Helots. By the time of the rise of Alexander the Great in 336 BC, Sparta was a shadow of its former self, clinging to an isolated independence. During the Punic Wars Sparta was an ally of the Roman Republic. Spartan political independence was put to an end when it was eventually overpowered by its ancient rival Argos and forced into the Achaean League.

Spartans continued their way of life even after the Roman conquest of Greece. The city became a tourist exhibit for the Roman elite who came to observe the "unusual" Spartan customs. Supposedly, following the disaster that befell the Roman Imperial Army at the Battle of Adrianople (378 AD), a Spartan phalanx met and defeated a force of raiding Visigoths in battle. There is, however, no genuine evidence of this occurring.

Answer 3

The city of Sparta is still on the map, and it's inhabitants-the Spartans-are still around today.

But if you want to know facts about their moment of glory then read Thucydides' 'History of the Peloponnesian War'; a book on the event which brought about the Lacedemonian (spartan)Hegemony.

Answer 4

900 B.C
In 900 B.C. the state of Sparta was founded. In ancient Sparta, the purpose of education was to
produce a well-drilled, well-disciplined marching army. Spartans believed in a life of order, selfdenial,
and simplicity. They were very loyal to the state of Sparta. Every Spartan, male or
female, was required to have a perfect body. When babies were
born in ancient Sparta, Spartan
soldiers would come by the house and check the baby. If the baby did not appear healthy and
strong, the infant was taken away, and left to die on a hillside, or taken away to be trained as a
slave called a helot. Spartans were know for a great military and were very good in the
Olympics.

776 B.C
In 776 B.C. were the first Olympic Games. People believed that the Spartans were only good in
the military and all they cared about was the military. The type of society that developed in
Ancient Greece was militarism but there was another thing that the Spartans liked to do was to
compete in the Olympics. The Spartan women also competed in some events such as gymnastics.
The Spartans like to win and did most of the time but they also cheated to win. This is a thing
that they did to get way from daily life.

740-720 B.C.
The first Messenian War ended about 720 BC to completely overthrow of the Dorians of
Messinía. In the wars, the Spartans were generally successful. Under their strict order, the
Spartans became a race of firm, Spartan Warriors, able of self-sacrificing patriotism. This was
shown by the loyal 300 heroes at Thermopylae.

500 B.C.
By 500 BC Sparta had become the most powerful city-state. It had the most frightening army,
which was made up of terrifically disciplined fighters. A pair of kings shared power in Sparta
with a committee of elders in an oligarchy. Sparta had a type of society that revolved around its
military so a type society that developed was militarism. Everything that Sparta was known for
was for its military. But the individual was not as important as the state.

494 B.C.
The Spartans under King Cleomenes defeated Argos in the Battle of Sepeia and forced it into a
group called Peloponnesian League. Cleomenes tried to punish Aegina for supporting Persia but
was blocked by the other king, Demaratus. Sparta was known for their fighting abilities and was
very powerful. The war that was fought almost ended the society of Spartan Militarism and
Sparta is started to decline.

459 B.C.
Rivalry between Sparta and Athens increase.

431-404 B.C.
Sparta was jealous of Athenian riches. A group between the cities of the Peloponnesian
Peninsula had been around since 550 BC, under the power of Sparta, and the Peloponnesian
group began to oppose Athens actively. In 431 BC the certain fight between Athens and Sparta
started. Known as the Peloponnesian War, the struggle between the two great city-states lasted
until 404 BC and resulted in establishing Spartan superiority in Greece. At the conclusion of the
war, Sparta sponsored an oligarchy, known as the Thirty Tyrants, to rule Athens. Spartan rule
soon showed itself as even harsher and crueler than that of Athens.

404 B.C.
Sparta took control of Athens in 404 B.C. After its defeat by Sparta in the harsh Peloponnesian
War (431-404 BC), the city began to fall. Sparta became stronger and stronger. Sparta loved its
military, and people were happy to die for there military. The society of Militarism in the citystate
of Sparta kept getting bigger and bigger. Sparta was so into there army that they didn’t
really care about any other thing such as inventions and discoveries.

403 B.C.
In 403 BC the Athenians under Thrasybulus revolted, expelled the Spartan defense
supported Sparta, and restored their democracy and independence. This is when
Sparta, a society that developed in Ancient Greece was beginning to fall.

338 B.C.
In 338 B.C., Sparta is not able to continue the rule of Greece. The power over Greece shifts from
Sparta to Thebes and then to numerous other city-states, that meant that Sparta’s military was
gone. The society that Sparta once had was now gone. “Sparta Militarism” was over and other
city-states tried to take over. The Spartans are known to have the strongest military in there
period of time.

Answer 5

"The ordinary Spartan was a warrior, trained to obey and endure; he became a politician only if chosen as ephor for a single year. He could be elected a life member of the council after his sixtieth year, in which he would be free from military service.

At the age of twenty, the Spartan began his military service and his membership in one of the syssitia (dining messes or clubs), composed of about fifteen members each, of which every citizen was required to be a member. Here each group learned how to bond and rely on one another. The Spartan exercised the full rights and duties of a citizen at the age of thirty. Only native Spartans were considered full citizens, and needed to undergo the training as prescribed by law, and participation in and contribution to one of the dining-clubs. Those who fulfilled these conditions were considered "peers," (homoioi) citizens in the fullest sense of the word, while those who failed were called "lesser men," and retained only the civil rights of citizenship.

Spartans were absolutely debarred by law from trade or manufacture, which consequently rested in the hands of the perioeci, and were forbidden (in theory) to possess either gold or silver. Spartan currency consisted of bars of iron, thus making thievery and foreign commerce very difficult and discouraging the accumulation of riches. Wealth was, in theory at least, derived entirely from landed property, and consisted in the annual return made by the Helots, who cultivated the plots of ground allotted to the Spartans. But this attempt to equalize property proved a failure: from the earliest times, there were marked differences of wealth within the state, and these became even more serious after the law of Epitadeus, passed at some time after the Peloponnesian War, removed the legal prohibition of the gift or bequest of land. Helots were ruthlessly controlled, primarily through the secret police or Krypteia.

Full citizens, released from any economic activity, were given a piece of land (kleros), which was cultivated and run by the Helots. As time went on, greater portions of land were concentrated in the hands of large landholders, but the number of full citizens declined. Citizens had numbered 8,000 at the beginning of the 5th century BC, but had decreased by Aristotle's day (384–322BC) to less than 1,000, and had further decreased to 700 at the accession of Agis IV in 244 BC. Attempts were made to remedy this situation by creating new laws. Certain penalties were imposed upon those who remained unmarried or who married too late in life. These laws, however, came too late and were ineffective in reversing the trend.

Perhaps the most widely known event on the efficiency of the Spartan war-machine is related to the Persian Wars. The Spartan stand at the Battle of Thermopylae has been repeatedly cited in a military Grand Strategy context as a role model on the advantages of training, strategy and bravery against extremely overwhelming odds."

Answer 6

Sparta is still around. It started rising as a power in ancient Greece about 1,000 BC and continue even after the assenyt to power of the Athenians and even fought the Romans as late as 330 AD.

Answer 7

About 321 B.C.

Answer 8

before the romans not sure of a date for you. they were around when the greeks were just starting to gain territory

Answer 9

Oh darn it, you just missed them, they were just here about twenty minutes ago with their swords, and shields and I asked them to leave they smelled, but they told me you could catch them all at www.history.com anytime.

Answer 10

8th csentury BC