Athens Vs. Sparta

Around the fifth century, about 30,000 to 40,000 people who live in the community of Athens enjoyed equality until they created this new law and so many political rights. Citizenship was granted only for male children and their parents had to be born in the Athens. Males had to complete certain type of military training for the males to be able to vote. But in order for you to vote you had to be a white male landowner with a lot of money. All of this is an example of a Ancient Greek democracy. This also explains what a greek democracy is. In some type of way, in Ancient Greece a political life seemed more democratic than lot other other democracies. It also seemed less democratic. City-States were not wealthy at all. In a city-state the majority of them …show more content…
The reason being is because in a democracy you usually do not have to deal with slavery and not a lot of trading involved, there are some but just not a lot. One of their main similarities is that they both contain the same amount of political rights. Both of them state that only men can vote only if they go into a special military training that involves some very hard core activities. Democracy and City-States can both be similar but mostly different. How I see this as is Athens and Sparta. W ith Athens and Sparta, they are both the same but then again they are mostly different. Athens is more of a democracy and Sparta is more of a city-state. In a democracy they are more about their political stuff and how it comes all together. On the other hand, Sparta does care about their political rights but not as much as they care about their trading and trading immigrants. That’s why Sparta is more of a city-states then they are a city-state then they are a democracy. In conclusion, a democracy and a city-state can be similar but it mostly has more differences. Each one describes something that can and or will affect their