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COMPARISON ON ATHENS & SPARTA./……. In Ancient Greece most city-states were the same as the largest one, Athens. Although there was one city-state that was like no other, Sparta. Spartan people were the toughest ever. There were no walls built around Sparta, to make them fight harder; there were no lights in the city, to make the soldiers skilled at night fighting. In the city of Athens there were large walls to keep out intruders and …

…be a citizen was if his father was a citizen, if he was a male over thirty years of age. Whichever way it is looked at Athens and Sparta were completely different city-states. Whether it is through their completely opposite life styles, or their differing variety of food, whether it was the way they used their farming methods or just the disagreement with the way they ran their city-states, Athens and Sparta were hugely different.