Sparta


 * Won the second Peloponnesian War
 * Imposed the Thirty Tyrants upon Athens
 * Slaves known as helots
 * Lycurgus instituted the ruling system of five ephors
 * Archidamus II negotiatied a Thirty Years' Peace with Pericles
 * Always had the two kings from the Agiad and Eurypontid Dynasties
 * Had a legislative council of thirty men aged sixty or older led by the Apella and called the Gerousia
 * One ruler is known for a 200-line elegiac poem and his concise sayings