How Did Sparta And Athens Get The Right To Participate In Public Life

Introduction

In this assignment, I will discuss with you how people in Sparta and Athens got the right to participate in public life/make community decisions affecting decisions, who is in charge, the rules that govern, and their similarities as well as their differences. Ancient and classical Greece were interesting civilizations and differed in terms of the type of government and political administration of the state and the numbers and regions they inhabited. Among the most famous Greek cities in the ancient and classical eras, the most important of them and having wide influence and influence are Athens, Sparta, called the dictatorship Sparta, and democratic Athens.

Sparta was interested in males and focused on them more than females,

“The Agoge was a system of physical education for the sole purpose of preparing boys to be soldiers and girls to be baby-factories.”(Brand, 2010, p. 6). People got the right to participate in Sparta by relying on the rule of the minority in the implementation of political decisions and it revolves around members of the oligarchy who run governments and decide the fate of states and impose the laws stipulated by them. In Athens, too, was considered a male-dominated democratic society, but boys were taught the military when they reached the age of 16, While people obtained the right to

The kings were not strong on the battlefields, but they only formed a political interface to attend religious invitations, contributions, and so on. Also, the Senate met with them every month and discussed matters of state and military decisions. While in Athens only male citizens held public office without women and slaves, able free citizens to vote and organize for the jury and the navy and contribute to the decisions of the state. The jury is chosen by voting among themselves according to certain rules and divisions that classify them according to their wealth, age, and competence. The two city-states were similar in their governmental structures, as all of them were oppressing women and did not give them any importance in the opportunity to occupy government places, and they all had slaves, and also did not let them participate in their political affairs, but rather they were persecuted and dealt with contempt. While the two city-states differed in the economy, Sparta focused On the military and attack the neighboring lands inhabited by merchants and farmers and take their crops and make them work for them as slaves and be under their rule. While in Athens their economy was based on the trade of olive oil and some products and they had gold and silver coins. Women in Sparta were treated as reproductive machines, as I mentioned earlier, and they also