A | B |
Polis | city state (center of Greek life) |
Phillip II of Macedonia | conquered Greece 228 BC |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Peloponnesian War | Athens attached Spartans allies, city states declared war on Athens |
Athens & Sparta | The Greatest City-States of Greece |
Cleisthenes | wrote new Democratic constitution, overthrew Spartans |
Solon | made constitution to break power over rich people, freed slaves, gave citizenship to artisans |
Democracy | gave power to the people |
Battle of Marathon | Darius sent persians to Greek mainlnd.Greeks victory over Persian invaders |
Delian League | Defense group two protect Greece, Sparta didn't join |
Battle of Thermopylae | Persians marches to Athens, found way around 7000 Greeks, killed everyone in their way |
Battle of Plataea | Final Battle of the Persian War |
To die in battle or women die giving birth, they were given a headstone | Highest Honor in Spartan Society |
Never developed temples, buildings, or art. Lived simply | why Sparta was considered old fashioned |
Spartan Government | Slaves did the farming, only wanted to be military strong, poor farming society |
Pericles | called the "first citizen of Athens", rebuilt Athens |
Parthenon | Temple of Athena "goddess of wisdom" |
Delian | comes from the word Delos (Island in the Aegean) |
Entered the Military | Athenian Males at 18 |