From his speech and what you have read about Sparta, what kind of learning do you think king archidamus would consider “useless matters”? Would an Athenian agree?

a system of cooperative federalism emerged, as the powers of the federal government expanded.

the romans were initially interested in expansion via sicily (which at that time was a cultural melting pot), part of which lay under carthaginian control. at the start of the first punic war (264-241 bc), carthage was the dominant power of the western mediterranean, with an extensive maritime empire