Sparta Strengths

Sparta: an ancient war giant. Known for their toughness and skill in battle, they defeated armies with ease. Nothing could stand in their way. Except for their own guilt… They let military might get in the way of everything else. Was Sparta as good as they were made out to be? Were they really the well-polished war giant they looked like? Time to find out..

First off, I will address one of Sparta’s biggest weaknesses:
They lacked any significant formal education.

One thing that the Spartans lacked was significant knowledge and a formal education in reading, writing, and math because they thought it would be weak. They only wanted their children to learn to fight. They never let any foreign teachers into the city-state, because they thought they would be a mole and relay information to the enemy. …show more content…
Provided they weren’t abandoned in the woods as a baby for being apparently “weak”, at only age 7, Spartan boys were taken away from their families and placed in an agoge, a Spartan war training group of many young boys, from ages 7 to 20. In the agoge, they were abused, beaten, and underfed, to try and make them tough and gain a confidence to conquer in battle. They were put against each other in war games, more often than not resulting in death. Keep in mind that many of them were kids younger than anyone in this