Dbq Sparta Strengths

Could you imagine, if boys were running around at night stealing , and a civilization where there is only fighting? When there are four times as many slaves\ helots than there are Spartans. Well, that is Sparta. Sparta is a small city- state that was located in Greece. They were established around 500 B.C.E. Spartans were the most powerful army in Greece. A state- controlled education, or agoge occupied a central place in the Spartan system. Education in Sparta: Did the strengths outweigh the weaknesses? Teachings in Sparta: Did the outcomes exceed over the flaws? The weakness of Sparta Education outweigh the strengths in three ways: cruelty, weakened family, and lack of education.

Cruelty was a huge problem for Sparta and I will explain …show more content…
In Doc. A , it clarifies that the father had no right to decide whether to rear his newly born son or not. If they were satisfied that he was strong and healthy, then would give him back to his father to be brought up; if he wasn’t strong and healthy than they ordered him to be exposed ( Doc. A). A Spartiate’s son was nurtured by his parents only until he was seven years old. At the age he was removed from his family and from eight to twenty-one years he was educated by the state according to a rigorous. A state-controlled education, or a agoge. To create strong babies, Lycurgus regulated marriages, only if the women passed the physical test. (Doc E)

My final, major point why the strengths outweigh the weaknesses is the lack of education. According to Doc C., the Spartans learned to read and write for practical reasons, but all other forms of education they banned from the country, books and treatises being included in this as much as foreign languages.In Doc. E, it explains that there was lack of academic intelligence and mostly there was only physical education. Women were needed to do physical education when they were pregnant to produce healthy