2. SPARTA

3. Approved Major Decisions
SPARTA
Counsel of Elders
Advisors
Assembly of Citizens
Approved Major Decisions

4. Spartan Society Spartiates - Spartan soldiers
Perioeci - Merchants and Craftsmen
Helots - State slaves/serfs

6. Spartan Citizen
Newborns examined for defects

7. Spartan Citizen Newborns examined for defects
@ age 7, assigned to military barracks
“With your shield, or on it”

8. Spartan Citizen Newborns examined for defects
@ age 7, assigned to military barracks
@ age 20, allowed to marry.
Stayed in Barracks

9. Spartan Citizen Newborns examined for defects
@ age 7, assigned to military barracks
@ age 20, allowed to marry. Stayed in Barracks
@ age 30, took his place in the assembly

10. Spartan Women

11. Spartan Women Expected to Exercise and strengthen body
Girls engaged in sports and receive some public education

12. Spartan Women Expected to Exercise and strengthen body
Expected to produce Healthy Sons
Plutarch says, explicitly, that his purpose is not to write political history, but to bring out the subjects' particular virtues and vices and to illustrate his character. This purpose is worth bearing in mind — Plutarch's lives are not necessarily objective historical accounts, but narrative pictures aiming to convey a particular moral point.

13. Spartan Women Expected to Exercise and strengthen body
Expected to produce Healthy Sons
Ran the family estate (men at war)
women possessed economic power and influence

14. Spartan Women Allowed many freedoms not seen in ancient world
“Spartan women have opinions, they were not afraid to voice them in public; and worse still – their husbands listened to them!”
- Athenian

15. Sparta Stands Alone They looked down on trade and wealth.
Had little use for the arts or new ideas.
“Spartans are willing to die for their city because they have no reason to live.” - Athenian

16. The Phalanx new form of warfare

17. ATHENS

18. ATHENS
The free residents were called Citizen

19. ATHENS Monarchy – a Hereditary ruler
Aristocracy – 700 BC, Wealthy Landowners who could afford good weapons and chariots
Oligarchy – government that included small wealthy Middle Class merchants.

20. ATHENS Draco – Draconian Law
650 – 610 BC. Was the first legislator of Athens.
He replaced the prevailing system of oral law and blood feud by a written code to be enforced only by a court. Known for its harshness, draconian has come to refer to similarly unforgiving rules or laws.

21. ATHENS Cleisthenes – Demokratia - Direct Democracy
"the father of Athenian democracy.“
credited with reforming the constitution of ancient Athens and setting it on a democratic footing in 507 BC.
allowed a Lottery (or ‘by Lot’) of the Oligarchy in a selection of Legislators (council of 500)

22. PERSIAN WARS Thermopylae Pass
Initially, 300 Spartan soldiers held off Persian Army
XERXES, LEONIDAS
The delay allowed other Greek city-states to unite and plan
5000 Greeks were then defeated in the following battle
Within a year, the Greeks defeated the Persians

23. PERSIAN WARS Thermopylae Pass Delian League
Initially, 300 Spartan soldiers held off Persian Army
XERXES, LEONIDAS
The delay allowed other Greek city-states to unite and plan
5000 Greeks were then defeated in the following battle
Within a year, the Greeks defeated the Persians
Delian League
Formed to protect the Greek City-States from outside invasion
Each city-state paid a tribute (dues)