Sparta

[ben0711]

Where is sparta today and where did the spartans go? what happened to them?

[kempie]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparta

[jno]

they just became Greeks over the centuries. There are a few ruins left but not much; their theory was that their city did not need walls as it would be defended by its people not its constructions.

[Peter Pedant]

They died out

They didnt need walls but the helots revolt - was it Messene ? and by God they built walls again !

The Spartans used to expose less than perfect babies and so when they got fewer, the obvious thing was to expose less. But because it was all do to with being Spartan, they couldnt bring themselves to do it. Because less than perfect babies went against whole idea.
SO they got fewer and died out

The butchery during the pelopenessian war led they said at the time, to a depletion of the popultaion which allowed first the Macedonians to muscle in and then the Romans toconquer it

[ianh6]

The city of Sparta lies at the southern end of the central Laconian plain, on the right bank of the river Eurotas.
Sparta had the best army in ancient Greece; it was the most powerful state before the rise of Athens, and many would argue that it remained so afterwards. Also, following the defeat of Athens in the First Peloponnesian War, it became a great naval power. Sparta and Athens were reluctant allies against the Persians, but became rivals thereafter. The greatest series of conflicts between the two states, which resulted in the dismantling of the Athenian Empire, is called the Peloponnesian War. Athenian attempts to control Greece and take over the Spartan role of 'guardian of Hellenism' ended in failure. The first ever defeat of a Spartan hoplite army at full strength occurred at the Battle of Leuctra in 371 BC, after which Sparta's position as the dominant Greek city-state swiftly disappeared with the loss of its Helots. By the time of the rise of Alexander the Great in 336 BC, Sparta was a shadow of its former self, clinging to an isolated independence. During the Punic Wars Sparta was an ally of the Roman Republic. Spartan political independence was put to an end when it was eventually overpowered by its ancient rival Argos and forced into the Achaean League - which became Greece.