World History
Greek and Roman Empire
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- boys called all older men
- fathers
- Archaic Age
- 750-500BCE New period which saw the creation of the Polis
- boys lives in communal based houses till the age of
- 30
- helotes worked as
- household slaves, farmers, ect.
- helotes
- captivesor decendents of captives from neighboring parts of greece that belonged to the community and did almost all of the free inhabitants work
- spartan women could
- direct households, own property
- Greek city-states developed three forms of society and governments
- oligarchy,tyranny, and democracy
- most famous democracy
- Athens
- Oligarchy
- a political system in which a small number of men controlled policy making in an assembly of male citizens
- Spartan men devoted their lives to
- war
- Tyrannt
- preserved their city-states existing laws tried to control assemblies and council
- City-States
- popular in greece because of the geography
- to justify superiority greeks would
- embarasse and beat the helotes
- long hair was worn by spartans to
- show they were warriors
- athens citizen ranking
- 4 groups
- most famous oligarchy
- Sparta
- Polis
- independent community of cities inhabiting the city and countryside around it, self governed
- Democracy
- free male adult citizens had the right to vote on public matters
- boys left home at the age of
- 7
- spartan women were known for their
- freedom
- helotes vs. greeks
- helotes outnumbered the greeks