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Growing up as a girl in ancient Sparta meant being taught to read and write by your mother, who was also literate. This was unthinkable elsewhere in Greece. It also meant being given physical training, so that in the future the young woman would bear healthy little warriors for Sparta's defense.

Growing up as a boy was also unique in Greece. It could mean infanticide if the experts decided the boy was too frail or handicapped as an infant. If one survived that one began physical training at 7 years old, which in essence was the first stages of a military career. Every male was in the military in Sparta. At about 12 years old the boys left their parents and lived in a common "mess" with other boys of varying ages. This was a hard adolescence of fights, Wrestling competitions, stealing each other's food just to survive, enduring hazing type rituals by the older boys, and either surviving to live into adulthood or not making it and probably dying in one of the many tests.

Prof. Christensen, Biola University

thy needs to give traning for young girls in early age so that they could bright the future

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