Spartan Culture

Sparta was one of the first city-states in Ancient Greece. Sparta was mostly a warrior society and it reached its height of power after defeating one of the other first Greek city-states Athens. It’s culture was customarily centered on loyalty to its state and military service. The population of Sparta was made up of three main groups. The first group was the Spartans who were full citizens. The second group was Helots and they were captive people who were forced to work for the conqueror. The third group were the Perioeci and they worked as craftsman and traders and built weapons for the Spartans’ military. One big problem with Sparta was that they needed more land. Instead of citizens going around to find new land to conquer, the Spartans conquered the neighboring land of the Laconians. At the beginning of 730 B.C. the Spartans took conquest of their other neighbors the Messenians. Messenia was very big and it was a huge victory for Sparta. After their conquest over the Messenians and the Laconians they made their people become slaves or serfs and they …show more content…
and 600 B.C. the lives of the Spartans were very organized and tightly controlled. Males spent their childhood learning military discipline. They then later enrolled in the army for military service at age twenty. The males continued to live in the military barracks until age thirty and then they could get married. All of the soldiers meals were eaten in public dining halls with other fellow soldiers. One of their main meals was black broth and it consisted of a piece of pork boiled in animal blood, salt, and vinegar. When visitors went to Sparta they knew why the Spartans were not afraid to die. The visitors thought the Spartans did not fear death because of the sick things they had to do and eat. At the age of thirty, the Spartan males were allowed to vote in an assembly. They could live at home, but they had to stay in the army until the age of