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CITY, STATE AND WAR
City states: Athens and Sparta
Athens and Sparta were the largest cities in ancient Greece, and they were rivals.
Sparta and Athens were the biggest and most powerful of the Greek cities – and they had completely different ideas of how to live.
Athens, just a few kilometres from the sea, is now the capital of modern Greece. In ancient Greek times it was the richest
Rich Athens
Athens was the largest of the city states in ancient Greece. It may have had a population as large as 300,000. (At this time the biggest city in Britain had just a few hundred people!)
Athens also controlled the fertile land around it, forming a region called Attica. Within the land of Attica there were also gold, silver and lead mines and marble quarries. This made Athens a very rich city. Because it was also close to the sea, it could trade these precious metals and rocks for the extra food it needed beyond what its own land could provide. The port for Athens was called Pireus.
Athens became so wealthy from trade and the spoils of wars that it could spend large sums of money on the best artists and builders of the time.
city in Greece, based on trade using its fleet of ships. Sparta was a city in the southernmost part of the Greek mainland. Unlike Athens, Sparta was not near the sea. So it developed an army, rather than a navy.
City walls
Pireus
Athens
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