Sparta Strengths And Weaknesses

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Education in Sparta: Did the Strengths Outweigh the Weaknesses?

By: Korbyn Tietjen

Would you want to be abandoned or be left outside to die because you



weren't strong enough?Or get pulled away from your family when your 7 years old or

get whipped when you got caught stealing cause you were stealing terribly?Well this

was the fate of a Spartan child.Sparta was located on a large in Southern Greece

called Peloponnese.Sparta grew slowly to a city-state.Sparta was the dominant city- state on the Peloponnese by 500 BCE.Sparta also had to fight to survive like other

Greek settlements.Did the strengths outweigh the weaknesses?A few examples of

weaknesses is organized stealing, they leave the weak babies outside to die, and the

boys being removed …show more content…

In Spartan education, the weak babies die.If the tribe leaders think the baby

is strong enough they give the baby back to the father to be raised.If the baby was

weak they would leave the baby on a hill to die.Document A states"If they were

satisfied that he was strong and healthy, they gave it back to the father to be brought

up; if not, they ordered it to be exposed[left outside to die]."You can't inspect a baby

and say if the baby is strong and healthy or weak.A weak baby could of grew up and

became stronger than a baby who was a strong healthy baby.

In Spartan Education, boys at the age of 7 get removed from their families.

Then go to the state-controlled education or agoge. The boys had rigorous [military- like] discipline from eight through twenty-one years of age.Document A states"At

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