A | B |
Polis | city state (center of Greek life) |
Acropolis | fortified hill temple to god (Polis centered around it) |
Agora | open marketplace area at the foot of the hill |
Aristocrats | only aristocrats could be Spartan Citizens |
Oligarchy | government where few people have ruling power |
half their crop to the Aristocrats | the Helot farmers had to turn over |
Assembly | where every male citizen in Sparta over 20 was a member & aristocrats |
Ephors | 5 mangers chosen by the assembly |
Ephors jobs | in charge of public affairs, guided young Spratans education |
Council of Elders | assisted Ephors, men over 60, served high court, suggested laws to the assembly |
Spartan government's kings | had two kings,little power, led the army, conducted religious services |
Helots | Enslaved people, worked the farms |
Spartans trained for war | Helots worked the fields while the |
Spartan children Way of Life | unhealth babies left to die, at 7 boys went to military camp, little food, barfooted, slept outdoors |
Spratan Men way of Life | married at 20, lived in military barracks, retired at 60 |
Spartan Women | more freedom, wrestled and raced |
Spartan Women said | come home with your shield or on your shield |
Dead Spartans | came home on their shields |
to be military strong | sole goal of the Spartans was |
Why did Sparta remain poor | No trade or business, depended on slaves for farming, new ideas would weaken them |
mountains and seas | Greece was separated by |
rocky, hilly, mountainous | Greece geography was |
Peleporneseus | In South Central Greece, great Military power in Greece |
decided by the Assembly | matters of war and peace were |
Perioceci | Merchants or artisans, not enslaved, worked while Spartans trained for war |
by the Aristocrats | Periocei were kept under strict control |
the Aristocrats by 20X | Perioceici and Helots outnumbered |