Is there an equivalent in Chinese history to the Spartans?
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Here's some food for thought: Sparta was just one of the many city states which were fighting in ancient Greece, before the inception of the Roman empire (think the Peloponneseian Wars). Their relatively equal strength prevented them from winning any extremely significant wars and yielding any great conquest, again, until the inception of the Roman empire. You may (do) know of these wars between Sparta and Athens which were won by Sparta, as shown in the relatively undiscovered film, 300 (joking).
The early Zhou Dynasty in China ended when, as a result of nomadic incursions, the state was weakened, and the regional lords took power. This period was known as the Spring and Autumn period, and it was characterized by the fighting of many individual states (sound familiar?). These states fought, and eventually (in 406 BCE) the states had coalesced into 7 states. These 7 states made up the Warring states period. In 221 BCE, the Qin took power, and ushered in the Qin Dynasty.
I guess you could call the warring states or spring and autumn periods a chinese equivalent to the world in which the Spartans lived, but the Qin ideology strongly embraced Legalism and a Legalist ideology and basically had to be somewhat militaristic to at least get to where they were in the first place. Males in the Qin dynasty had to register for conscription at 16.
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