Why do you think Alexander never entered Sparta to invade?
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Answer:
Actually his father, Philip, wanted the Spartans to join his empire and was actually threatening them. The Spartans responded in a typical laconic posturing way, and they would have been crushed by Philip, but for some reason he left them alone.
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For all intents and purposes, Alexander the Great did conquer Sparta: he crushed their league in a decisive battle and forced the city to join his pan-hellenic league.
It is true that initially, neither he nor his father seemed to have interest in Sparta and largely left the Spartans to their own devices. And they had many good reasons to do so:
Sparta was a shadow of its former self. It no longer had helots to do the manual labour and the Spartans could no longer concentrate their efforts on military training as much as they used to.
Sparta was hardly attractive from an economical perspective.
Laconia is geographically isolated from the rest of Greece, and at the end of trade routes. There is little strategical value to conquer the region.
Laconia has geographical features which makes it easy to defend, to the point that Sparta never even felt the need to build city walls.
So when Phillip created the League of Corinth and bullied almost every Greek city into joining but the Spartans defiantly refused, he didn't bother pressing the matter and simply ignored them.
However, a few years later, the Spartans forced Alexander's hand. Under king Agis III, they launched an expedition to secure the island of Crete, tried to secure financial help from the Persians, leagued themselves with rebelling cities and launched a war against Macedonia. Alexander utterly crushed the Spartans in 331BC at the battle of Megalopolis, and forced Sparta to join the League of Corinth.
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