SPARTA

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SPARTA
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MILITARY SOCIETY

• Life revolved around army, no need for city
  wallsarmy will defend
• All men aspired to become soldiers
• Newborn infants were examined
• Healthy could live
• Sickly left to die on a hillside

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SPARTAN MEN

• Age 7 taken to military barracks to start
  training in reading, writing, weapons
• Age 20 became soldiers sent to frontier
• Age 30 marry reproduce, but still stay in army
• Age 60 retire from army

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SPARTAN MEN

• Life in barracks is harsh
• Beaten by older children to make you tough
• Whipped in front of others but could not cry
• Given little food encouraged to steal
• Wore rags no shoes all year
• In time, taught to lie, steal, cheat

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SPARTAN WOMEN

• Lifes ambition is to be a soldiers mother
• Brought up to be healthy
• Trained in wrestling, boxing, gymnastics
• Married at 19 so babies would be healthy
• More personal freedoms than Athenians, but not
  serve in govt

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SPARTAN GOVT.

• There were kings, but their duties were limited
  to leading the army conducting religious
  services
• The Assembly (male citizens over 30) passed laws,
  made decisions
• A Council of the Elders (male citizens over 60)
  served as supreme court

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CULTURE

• The strict control over people led to a lack of
  economic development
• Discouraged trade shunned philosophy, science
  the arts
• They were exceptional athletes, competed well in
  the Olympics, defended Greece against invaders

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Athens
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Government

• Unlike Sparta they developed a constitution that
  stated all free, Athenian-born men were
  citizensregardless of what social class - Now
  they could participate in Assembly regardless of
  land ownership
• - This reduced friction in Athens

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Children in Athens

• Boys given an education, as they were expected to
  hold office as a citizen 1 day
• Girls received no formal education, just
  household training from mother
• Private tutors or schools
• From 7-18 boys learned
• Arithmetic --Geometry
• Drawing, music, gymnastics
• Main texts were Iliad Odyssey

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Children in Athens

• Wealthy girls would marry their fathers choice
  at 15
• Peasant girls would choose a husband from the
  field
• Boys would train for future jobs after school
• They entered the military after graduation then
  went onto careers such as businessmen or Olympic
  athletes

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Women in Athens

• Wore clothes to depict their status in society
• Most important job for all women is having
  children
• Wealthy women would manage house slaves
• Peasant women would manage house work in field
• Women not allowed to eat/sleep in same room as
  men, go to market
• Women were not allowed to view the olympics.

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Men in Athens

• Like their wives, wore clothes equal to their
  status
• In charge of family house
• Given great respect at home
• Would work as businessmen or farmers during the
  day
• Given the most responsibility in Greece, so they
  were the most important people

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Building Democracy

• 621 BC democracy develops in Athens
• Develop legal code based on equality of citizens
• Abolish debt slavery have citizens make laws
• - Only native born property owning males are
  citizens