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Sparta
One of the city states of ancient Greece, Sparta was well known for its warrior culture.
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How was a young girls life in the 1600?
The age of majority, and the expectations placed on teenagers today and teenagers during the 1600s is vastly different. First of all, a young man in his teens was not considered a child, teenagers ruled countries and went to war. If wealthy, he took time to acquire an education prior to marrying and living life as an adult.
How old were greek men when they trained for the military?
in Sparta the boys had two leave their familys at age 7. but in Sparta they only had to fight at times of war.
What is the summary of Greek and Roman Civilization?
Greeks and Romans were both warrior civilizations. However, they also both added much of value to the civilizations that came after them. Democracy, politics, even bathrooms and sewage lines, came from Greek or Roman civilizations.
What were the responsibilities of spartan women?
How was Sparta finally able to defeat Athens in the Peloponnesian War?
Persia gave the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta the money to build a fleet of warships equal to Athens', and to pay the crews at double the Athenian rate to attract the best sailors.
At the confrontation of the two fleets at Aigospotomai, Spartan commander Lysander waited until the Athenian ships crews were on shore buying their food from the local market and swooped on them, taking most on the beach before they could get to sea to fight.
With its fleet gone, Athens was besieged with no means of importing food, and eventually had to surrender.
What is the relationship between Athens and Sparta after the war?
Sparta, having established its dominance and security in the Peloponnese, and material security through its serf population, sought peacefulness. It supported Athens, after it had expelled its tyrant, against forcible attempts of its oligarchy to reestablish control. They joined together in repelling the Persian invasion, and Athens provided military support to Sparta in putting down its serf rebellion.
Things went sour during this espedition and Sparta sent the Athenians home. Hostilities broke out as an over-confident Athens meddled in the affairs of Sparta and its allies in the peloponnese peninsula. fter 15 years they patched things up with a 30 year peace treaty. Howeve Athens continued to intervene in the problems i the Peloponnese, Sparta demanded that Athens back off, Athens persisted, and the devastating 27-year Peloponnesian War broke out, which Athens lost.
They used round stones, difficult to trade and no intrinsic value, the currency was not accepted outside of Sparta. It kept all their "money" in their local economy.
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is that they used money like all the rest of the Greeks,only Spartan citizens/read soldiers were not allowed to have or possess any, so the buying and trade was done for them by slaves.And trade between cities was done by dwellers of Sparta that were not full citizens (were not born to mother and father Spartan,complicated story...)
The stone money has more metaphorical meaning.
What is the difference of Athens Sparta and Rome?
They were founded by different tribes of nomadic Indo-European peoples - Ionians, Dorians and Latins. When they settled in their respective territories, they developed their own varieties of language, culture, and customs as agricultural peoples - the words of their languages which they share relate to hunter-gathering, and this commonality disappears in agricultural and citified terminology.
What was the language spoken in Sparta?
Spartans were Greeks, and they spoke Ancient Greek like their neighbours.
The Spartans spoke the Doric Greek language. The Spartans practiced the Greek Polytheism religion. Sparta existed from 900s 192 BC.
The people of Sparta spoke Greek.
Athenians war aims for Spartans?
The Spartans made their own war aims, they did not ask Athens for them.
What were two major accomplishments of the ancient Greeks?
The Greeks developed two types of play writing: comedy and tragedy. The Greeks have also made many influential contributions in philosophy, music, mathematics, and science that created an impact on Western civilization, while at the same time simultaneously participating in the Peloponnessian wars and the Persian wars.
What great achievements to humanity are Nubians appreciated for?
Nubians Have 3 acient kingdoms, Meroe, Kerma, and Napata. These kingdoms have inbraced the culture of Egypt even though they are rivals. One or two of these kingdoms built pyramids but, they were not like the egyptians. They were more "pointyer" And they make the egptian pyramids look flat.
Which cultural element was common to all Greek city-states?
I believe it is art, my second guess would be music though
Why did the Spartans have 2 kings?
Sparta ran on a system of democracy, therefore it had two kings who shared responsibilities. It is evident from Plutarch's; "Life of Lycurgus", that a lawgiver known by the name of Lycurgus derived the Spartan laws from the oracle at Delphi, which outlined how Sparta was to function. Within this Delphic Oracle it was stated that Sparta was to have two kings.
Sparta did not have a system of Democracy the spartan government was a Oligarchy: form of power structure in which power effectively rests with a small number of people. These people could be distinguished by royalty, wealth, family ties, education, corporate, or military control. Such states are often controlled by a few prominent families who typically pass their influence from one generation to the next, but inheritance is not a necessary condition for the application of this term. almost always Oligarcy oligarchies have been tyrannical (relying on public obedience and/or oppression to exist) or relatively benign. Aristotle pioneered the use of the term as a synonym for rule by the rich.
The state was ruled by two hereditary kings of the Agiad and Eurypontid families, both supposedly descendants of Heracles and equal in authority, so that one could not act against the power and political enactments of his colleague.
The duties of the kings were primarily religious, judicial, and military. They were the chief priests of the state and also maintained communication with the Delphian sanctuary, which always exercised great authority in Spartan politics. In the time of Herodotus, about 450 BC, their judicial functions had been restricted to cases dealing with heiresses, adoptions and the public roads. Aristotle describes the kingship at Sparta as "a kind of unlimited and perpetual generalship" while Isocrates refers to the Spartans as "subject to an oligarchy at home, to a kingship on campaign"
Civil and criminal cases were decided by a group of officials known as the ephors, as well as a council of elders known as the Gerousia. The Gerousia consisted of 28 elders over the age of 60, elected for life and usually part of the royal households, and the two kings.[38] High state policy decisions were discussed by this council who could then propose action alternatives to the Damos, the collective body of Spartan citizenry, who would select one of the alternatives by voting.
The royal prerogatives were curtailed over time. Dating from the period of the Persian wars, the king lost the right to declare war and was accompanied in the field by two ephors. He was supplanted also by the ephors in the control of foreign policy. Over time, the kings became mere figureheads except in their capacity as generals. Real power was transferred to the ephors and to the Gerousia.
The origins of the powers exercised by the assembly of the citizens are virtually unknown because of the lack of historical documentation and Spartan state secrecy.
It increased Athenian prestige and demonstrated to the the Greek city-states that Persian domination could be successfully resisted. Apart from that, the city-states maintained their usual caotious stance with each other including with Athens.
What was the Spartan leader's name during the Peloponnesian War?
The Peloponnesian War was a conflict spanning nearly three decades; dozens of generals were elected during this time on both sides (Sparta and Athens) and so this question needs to be more specific. However, Pericles is considered the greatest Athenian general of this period, being both a military strategist and a impressive orator. He had encouraged war between Athens and Sparta in the belief that if won, Athens would finally dominate the whole of Greece. However he never saw his dream fulfilled as he died of the plague which ravaged Athens in the early stages of the War.
Why didn't Sparta benefit more from its victory in the Peloponnesian War?
The end of the war did not bring peace to the Greeks, who continued their customary fighting amongst each other in changing alliances. Wars had so reduced Spartan manpower that they could not match the armies of others, and after being leading city-state for 35 years after the Peloponnesian War, it was defeated by Thebes and became a second rate power barely able to control its own territory and a restive serf population.
Why did most Greeks admire the spartan state?
The Greeks admired their strength. They were powerful and other than there numbers had strategy and conquered.
Who were the ephors in Sparta similar to in Persia?
The five ephors were the governing council in Sparta, handling day to day matters. The dual kings of Sparta had mainly religious and war leader duties, and were advised by the ephors who effectively exercised political control.
In Persia government was by the king, whose council advised him, but did not wield power.
How did the peloponnesian war affect the city-states of Athens and Sparta?
The geography of Athens and Greece in general strongly affected the development of a city located in Athens:
1) Prime Location: The Greek Mainland (Thrace, Epirus, Boetia, Attica, and the Peloponnesus) is among the most mountainous and hilly land in all of Europe, making land travel between the city-state minimal. However, the area nearly Athens is less mountainous, making it much easier to build a historical city. It had a central position, north of the Peleponnesus and south of Boetia in Attica, which allowed them to easily trade with Corinth and Sparta in the south and Delphi in the north. It was also very close to the natural port of the Piraeus, giving it an outlet to the sea and prime access to the Aegean.
2) Marine Travel and Naval Strength: Most of the city-states were relatively close to the water, especially those found on Crete, Cyprus, the Dodecanese Islands, or Cycladic Islands. Greek city-states favored marine travel which was more reliable and cost-effective than land travel. As a result, many city-states had strong navies as opposed to having strong armies. Athens under Themistocles had the largest navy of any Greek city-state as well as having the vassalage of several Greek island-states.
3) Chronic Disunity: Because of the prevalence of strong navies, the difficulty of land travel, and the presence of many invasion choke-points (the most famous being Thermopylae), the Greek city-states were never completely unified until Alexander the Great conquered them all. (Sparta did defeat Athens in the Peloponnesian War, but only held onto that victory for a very short time. In addition, Sparta never expanded its power into Boetia or over the Cycladic Islands - which would have been the next logical places to expand.)
4) Pastoralism and Fishing: The mountainous terrain made growing crops very difficult. The two crops that the Greeks were able to cultivate were olives and wheat, but wheat was much more difficult to maintain than the olives. This forced Greeks to resort to pastoralism (primarily animal-based agriculture) and they raised goats, sheep, and pigs. As a result, there was a lot of dairy and meat in the Greek diet relative to contemporaneous civilizations (although significantly less than today). In addition, because of the access to the sea, Greek cuisine included vast amounts of shellfish, mollusks, and proper fishes.
The mountains separated the city states, the bays provided fertile land for farming, and the sea provided fishing and trading of sea food.
What were the ancient Spartans' weaknesses?
Their citizen population, and hence its army size, was limited to the productivity of the Spartan warrior class. With a succession of wars over two centuries, the war loses exceeded the male birth rate, and so Sparta's army shrank. After the Spartan defeats at Tegyra 375 BCE and Leuctra 371 BCE, Sparta could no longer field a credible army, became entirely defensive and sank into obscurity.
What was ancient spartan transportation?
Best I can tell would be horseback, wagon, or Chariot. All go hand in hand involving horses. Of course boat for water travel. But 90% was by the first three.
