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The Choice To Live In Athens Or Sparta
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HIST 1421- AY2022-T4
Learning Journal Unit 2 2022, April 14
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Since Athens or Sparta were the poleis of Ancient Greece, they had larger land and were stronger, the military or economic finance, according to Brand, P. J. (n.d. pp 1). They shared the same culture and languages in Greek. For me, I like both city-states filled with a fertile plain and tall mountains as I can breadth natural air and feel the urbane scenery during the 5th century BC. If we had the choice to live in either Athens or Sparta, which one would I choose? Halsall, P. (1999, pp 1-2) mentioned that Aristodemus, or, according to another story, his twin Eurysthenes and Procles, led the way down the Eurotas, where new villages sprung up. The newly formed state did not become dominant right away as the Dorian capital of Laconia was undermined by internal strife
and lacked stability. So, Lycurgus’s legislation started with the Spartan's education, which meant to prepare the locals to be soldiers adequately. Obedience, endurance, and military achievement were the goals that we're continually in mind, and all other goals will be secondary issues. In the articles from Brand, P. J. (n.d.,
pp 4-7), Helots were obligated to farm their ancestral fields and give up to half of their output to sustain Spartans, Messenians and other Helots in Laconia. All males who must be 14 years old served as a lifelong soldiers until the age of 60. Any jurisdiction was judged by the council elders and ephors. Any military, ritual or justice is passed down from the high priest of the state for food sacrifices or some other sacrifice at Delphi. Men and women were required to marry between 20 and 30 by law. Spartan women were trained to be physically fit to give birth but inferior to men in financial and social independence. Voting in the government system selects only two Gloucian royals and five magistrates each year.
According to the article from Cartledge, P. (2011), Athen’s democratic or democracy means the voting of
government matters or official bodies could be done by the common herd beside the rich society. It was a golden year during the reign of Pericles. He had removed the oligarchy and substituted the democracy where
the poor chose a range of different jobs' roles, freedom of speech in the political space, and the opportunity to be voted for or to vote for a leading politician. In the articles from Brand, P. J. (n.d., pp 29-30), even though there was still a slavery system among the native Athenians, many slaves were highly talented and clever specialists. They comprised goldsmiths, accountants, private instructors, and others. Their masters seized the majority of their economic production, but slaves could also earn their own money and even buy their freedom. Skilled slaves were precious property, and their masters treated them as an investment.
Although both Athens and Sparta still belong to man society as upper hands in the old days, free males who could vote in the assembly and serve in the army as hoplites. In my conclusion, Athens is my choice to live in the city-state. Although it is not as spectacular as our society today, it is good as women and men are equal and people are compelled to serve in the military.
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References
Brand, P. J. (n.d.).
Athens & Sparta: Democracy vs. dictatorship
. Retrieved from: https://my.uopeople.edu/pluginfile.php/57436/mod_book/chapter/38899/
HIST1421.U1.Athens.Sparta.pdf
Cartledge, P. (2011, February 17). The Democratic experiment
. BBC. Retrieved from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/greeks/greekdemocracy_01.shtml
Halsall, P. (1999, January). Sparta
. In Ancient History Sourcebook: 11th Britannica. Fordham University. Retrieved from: https://my.uopeople.edu/pluginfile.php/1573074/mod_book/chapter/338988/Ancient
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