Did the Spartans have a weak or strong society? Sparta was a Greek city state that was never really big. Located on a peninsula in Southern Greece called the Peloponnese, Sparta began as a cluster of houses huddled along the banks of the Evrotas river. The weaknesses of Sparta outweigh the strengths because they lack education, boys are taken away from their families at a young age, and also they are very abusive. The boys were taken away from their families at a young age. In document A the text states, At the age of seven a boy was removed from his family, and from his eighth to his twenty-first year, he was educated by the state according to rigorous discipline.

To begin with Spartans lacked formal education. Document D states that “ all other forms of education they were banned from the country, books, and treatises being included in this as much as foreign teachers.” Since Sparta lacked education they had no way of curing disease, figuring out how to solve hard problems, etc and if they couldn’t solve hard problems or cure disease they caused many innocent people to die, and they also wouldn’t be able to figure out how to …show more content…
In document A it states “a spartiate son was nurtured by his parents only until he was seven years.” Since the boys were taken away from their family at the age of seven years old to train for the military, they didn’t form an adaptation to their parents as they were supposed to as an adolescent child, causing them to be more adapted to military than they are to their parents. A problem with a child being more adapted to military than they are to their parents is that if they get out of the military and don’t remember who their parents are, or what they did before they left as a seven year old boy if can affect their parents feeling as well as their own, because they may think their parents died before they could get out of the