What Is Sparta Education Strengths

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Sparta education’s strengths overweighted the weaknesses. They are built so well but they’ve become super strong and successful. One of the main reasons so successful because of the army. It was super effective and ahead of its time. There wasn't even a lot of people that apart of Sparta. Sparta was never big. The education strengths overweighted the weaknesses.
The education of the Sparta taught the army very well. “One important reason was military toughness, and more specifically, the perfection of a battle formation called the phalanx.” (The DBQ Project) The phalanx was an elite body of troops that fought together and worked together. They were taught to stand by each other and work from there. They are a group of heavily armed infantry

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