what are the Spartans well known for....?

Question

Im doing a powerpoint for school on the Spartans, and I need to know some information about the Spartans, please help

Answer 1

In ancient Sparta, the purpose of education was to produce a well-drilled, well-disciplined marching army.

Spartans believed in a life of discipline, self-denial, 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 (a helot). Babies who passed this examination were assigned membership in a brotherhood or sisterhood, usually the same one to which their father or mother belonged.

Spartan women were taught reading, and writing, but were also expected to be able to protect themselves. A girls education was equally as brutal as the men's, and included many athletic events such as javelin, discus, foot races, and staged battles. In many such events, Spartan women would run naked in the presence of their male counterparts, and were respected for their athletic feats.

The boys of Sparta were obliged to leave home at the age of 7 to join sternly disciplined groups under the supervision of a hierarchy of officers. From age 7 to 18, they underwent an increasingly severe course of training. Only warfare mattered. The boys were not fed well, and were told that it was fine to steal food as long as they did not get caught stealing. If they were caught, they were beaten. They boys marched without shoes to make them strong. It was a brutal training period.

In Sparta, girls also went to school at age 6 or 7. They lived, slept and trained in their sisterhood's barracks. No one knows if their school was as cruel or as rugged as the boys school, but the girls were taught wrestling, gymnastics and combat skills.

In most of the other Greek city-states, women were required to stay inside their homes most of their lives. In Sparta, citizen women were free to move around, and enjoyed a great deal of freedom, as their husbands did not live at home.

No marvelous works of art or architecture came out of Sparta, but Spartan military force was regarded as terrifying. Thus, the Spartans achieved their goal.

Answer 2

Military prowess is their greatest contribution. If you were a greek city-state waring with another, you would want the spartans with you rather than against you. To further this they did several things:

1. Most pre-pubescent children were taken from their families to live in barracks. This included both girls and boys. The purpose was to educate and foster a sense of solidarity amongst groups. There are stories that children when born were exposed to the elements and if they survived, they were taken in....survival for the fittest, and all that.

2. They also practiced pederasty, which is a r/ship btw a man and a boy and in some cases was sexual (although highly scripted r/ship). It was a ritualistic r/ship meant to give the young man a mentor for life.

3. The individual was considered property of the state and the state's power over the life/death of a person was absolute.

4. It was an honor-driven society. Emphasis was placed on bringing honor to the society.....

Most other greek city-states considered Spartans to be primitive, sneeky and war-mongers....but they were feared, that's for sure.

Answer 3

Mostly their grit and military prowess, their inability to grasp the practicality of the phrase "Live to fight another day".

Seriously, apart from a short span of military glory, they have no major contribution to mankind and were one of the most brutal of civilizations (if you can call that) with a slave population that was almost 20 times their numbers. Once in a while a movie comes along that glorifies such military cultures and people comes to know about them.

Brave and powerful but warmongers and brutal, that was Spartans famous for.

Answer 4

spartans are well known to be very military like and rather harsh. it was like their aim was to perfect their people. they have an infant selection procedure where those who are deemed weak or unhealthy were left to die..much like how the rest of the world treated girl babies but they applied it to weakness on both sexes. their main aim of living was to live a life of discipline, self-denial, and simplicity...with a single aim to serve the state. they took moral values, courage and strength as their pillars and all life in sparta is sort of designed for this from birth. while boys are trained to be soldiers, women gymnists to ensure all of sparta is strong. the men and women, unlike other greek states, are equal and are expected to perform their duties without fail and with pride.

Answer 5

The Spartans were very athletic, war-loving people.

Answer 6

Tight abs and living in Sparta. Also, a little known fact, many Spartans had Scottish accents.

Answer 7

i'll tell you their legacy to our world:

- The western military tradition
- the education patrocinated by the state
- The colectivism
-the totalitarian regimes came from the spartan model
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Answer 8

Watch 300.

Answer 9

Check your local library for information. The websites below might help also.

Answer 10

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