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Spartans and Athenians, are two different people, they had there conflict, but they also combined there forces in times to fight the common enemy, Persia. These two civilization's have similarity they are the two largest cultures in ancient Greece. The Spartans are Dorions, while the Athenians are ancient Greeks.

The Spartans are people that are focusing all there time and effort to form a strong army. This is because most of the people they are surrounded by are enemy's. 250000 inhabitants are slaves while 10,000 are actual citizens, this is why the Spartans rely on a strong army. Spartan education for boys, begins at the age of seven, where they are sent off to barracks with there peers to learn how to read write and most importantly fight and become a soldier. While spartan girls have only a physical education so they stay healthy.

Athenians are different they have a strong economy, and farming. There culture does have military aspects, but they also support art,music, math and philosophy. There citizens have a variety of jobs not only soldiers. In Athens only rich boys can be educated. They learn about reading, writing, solving math problems, writing poetry, drama but also athletics.

AS you can see these people and cultures are very different.