Putting a baby outside in the cold, as the elders watch its eyes shut and life slip away. Sparta was located on a peninsula in southern Greece called, the Penepolese. Also, it was along a river named Evrotas. Sparta was a city-state or a separate state that is governed by itself that is also not part of a larger unit. Sparta became so strong because of its military formation called the phalanx. Spartiate citizens or pure spartans would have to be part of this military. The phalanx was a battle formation in which, soldiers stood shoulder to shoulder holding their shields overlapping each other, and moving in unison. Sparta had been challenged against the Athens which had begun a twenty-five-year-long war. This war is known as the Peloponnesian
