Unit 3: Greek Civilization- Section 2: City-states and the Persian Wars
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- Location of Sparta
- South central part of the peloponnesus
- Strongest Military power in Greece
- Sparta
- men over sixty advising ephors
- Council of Elders
- rich noble-small minority who kept the lower classes down by force
- Aristocrat
- passed laws and decided questions of war and peace- people over 20 years old
- Assembly
- Spartan Leadership
- First ruled by a king then aristocrats
- Manage the city-chosen by the Assembly
- Ephor
- enslaved people in Sparta who were farmers and gave half their earnings to the aritocrats
- Helots
- Spartan merchants&artisans who were neither citizens nor slaves
- Perioeci
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-attended military camps at age 7
-were examined often to make sure they weren't overweight or unfit - Spartan boys
- Located northeast of Sparta on the Agean Coast
- Athens
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-enjoyed sports
-had rights to visit other women
-could associate with men in public
-didn't require a charperone - Spartan Women
- 1st person to attempt to reform Athenian government, but he failed because his punishments were too harsh
- Draco
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-had to marry at the age of 20 and retire at 60
-couldn't own a house;had to live in barracks - Spartan Men
- rich merchant chosen in 594b.c to reform the government
- Solon
- blueprint for the government
- constitution
- he divided up large estates, made a person not have to own land to be a citizen, encouraged the arts
- Peisistratus
- government rule by a chosen few
- oligarchy
- city-state government that was first ruled by kings, then an oligarchy, later a democratic constitution
- Athenian Government
- led Athens to drive the spartans out of the city in 508b.c
- Clesithenes
- favoring the equality of all citizens
- democratic
- judges
- magistrates
- 1/10 generals is called the ...........
- commander in cheif
- made laws concerning daily business of Athens
- Council of 500
- couldn't serve more than 2 terms
- lot
- learned writing, reading, mathematics, poetry, art, philosophy and played sports
- Athenian Boys
- required citizens to educate their sons so they hired private tutors
- Cleisthenes
- only males born in Greece over 18 years old
- citizenship