Sparta

yes it was common practice in antiquity.

10 years

oligarchys or the council of elders

Alexander the Great ruled Egypt not Ancient Greece.

To turn out under arms when called out, and to undertake regular military training and exercises.

After it became necessary to withdraw the blocking force at the pass of Thermopylae, he sent off the 7,000 allies to seek shelter behind the walls of friendly cities. He remained blocking the pass with his Spartan contingent and the Thespians to give the main body a chance to get to protection before being ridden down by the Persian cavalry when it broke through. The Spartans and Thespians were all killed protecting the escape of their allies.

The economy and the military

Courts were empannelled from the citizens selected by lot, who were both judge and jury. Ordinary citizens prosecuted cases, avoiding self-interested lawyers. Trials took place on one day with a set period for accusation and defence.

Juries numbered 500 or even 2000 in serious cases. This meant that the decisions were effectively like an opinion poll of the entire population. There were few rules - accuser and defendant could say what they liked, but knew in such a limited community that the jurors probably knew a lot of the facts and could pick outright lies, so the were cautious about lying, preferring to go for exaggerating their case instead. The jury could vote guilty or not huilty, each having to coloured balls signifying yes or no, one of which they placed in and urn to be counted.

Punishments were also decided by the jury. In the event of a guilty verdict the prosecutor and defence each proffered a punishment - it meant that each presented an option most attractive and appropriate to the jury, which selected one or the other - asking for excessive punishment or lebiency was likely to get the jury to opt for the other. Very serious crimes brought death (Socrates for example was pinned for sacrilege). An affluent convicted might, for example, offer to finance a state warship for a year which would be attractive to the jury as it saved state taxes. Socrares was allowed to suicide as an option. Otherwise the Ten judicial officers would arrange for a state slave to cut the convicted's throat and throw the body into a cess pit.

Leonidas died because, an arrow went through his head and his enemies, cutes of his head, then burned it.

also because he went to war.

He got rid of all the depts in Athens

Alcibiades.

The three most significant events in Greece in the 5th century BCE are:

A/ The first Persian - Greek war at 490 BCE - Persian leader Darius I who was defeated by the Greeks at the battle of Marathon by the army of the Athenians and Plataeans under the leadership of Miltiades.

B/ The second Persian - Greek war at 480 BCE - Persian leader Xerxes who had three battles with the Greeks at Artemisium an inconclusive battle at sea, the battle of Thermopylae where the Greeks were defeated and the battle of Salamis where the Persian fleet was destroyed.

These two events stopped the expansion of the Persian Empire to the west and most probably made possible the future developments in the area that lead to the modern civilization.

C/ Then Pericles becomes the ruler of Athens and reconstructs the Acropolis of Athens and Parthenon is build [447 - 438 BCE].

Philosophy, science, technology, arts and education reach new hights.

Then a long 30 years war took place [431 - 404 BCE] between Sparta and Athens and their allies in the Aegean and the Mediterranean seas [Sicily and South Italy].

This war is known as the Peloponnesian war that left both ruling cities [Athens and Sparta] weak and unable to defeat the new coming powers of Greece the Makedonians.

Aristotle was the noble class who ruled Greek city-states.

Spartan male citizens exclusively trained for war, according to sources. Farming and craftworking was largely left to women and subservient or allied populations.

Because that learned them to work together. It wasn't the lying and stealing they stimulated [parents/teachers], but the teamwork it required.

An example: the boys in the training dormitories where given not enough food on purpose, this made them work together to steal more food. And the boys were punished for getting caught, not for the stealing itself.

The king of Sparta Leonidas.

• They learned to read- in school or at home
• They learned important household skills-spinning, weaving, sewing, cooking and other household jobs
• Learned simple facts on mythology, religion and occasionally musical instruments
• Spent most of their time in her household with other women- only leaving the house to perform religious duties
• Also, their husbands and fathers controlled them

King Agesilaus II of Sparta led an expedition into Asia Minor 396-394 BCE, and had considerable success in defeating Persian provincial governors there. His efforts were cut short when he was recalled to prosecute wars in mainland Greece against the combined forces of Athens, Thebes, Corinth and Argos, and could not return to Asia to pursue his plans to overthrow Persian power - achieved by Alexander 60 years later.

Neither. Metics (resident aliens) were merchants/traders/tradesmen/academics.

Sparta had serfs as a working class.

Athens had its own people as a working class.

Spartan boys were sent off to a boarding school called the agoge at the age of 7.

Sparta is located in the south, Athens is located in the northeast.

The Greek world was always a collection of independent city-states which fought each othr on a continuing basis. But in the Peloponnesian War 431-404 BCE between the Athenian Empire and the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta was devastating, opening the way for Macedonian dominance 60 years later.

Menelaus of Sparta was the Spartan King that was the true husband of Helen. Paris, a Trojan Prince, stole Helen from Menelaus and brought her back to Troy.

Before this happened, you need to know some things. Helen was the most beautiful woman in the world. She had many suitors, and finally her father asked for help from Oddyeseus, King of Ithaca. Oddyseues said that Helen's father should ask all the suitors to take an oath that they will abide by Helen's father's choice and that if Helen is stolen from the man chosen, everyone must go out and hunt down that man.

When Helen was stolen by Paris, everyone that was a suitor of Helen needed to take all his men and fight for Helen. This is was started the Trojan War.