Chris Orr
Period 4
3,000 B.C.-362 B.C.
Geography
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Capital of the city state Lacedaemon
Located in the center of Peloponnese
Next to the river Evrotas
Sparta was in a mountainous area
There were hot and dry summers
Rain only fell in the winter
Food Source
The Helots farmed
 They grew wheat barley and they made
bread
 Meat was ate seldom
 Fish was eaten a lot
 Figs, olives, and grapes were grown
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Government
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Had a mix of a monarchy and a oligarchy and a
democracy later on
Two kings and there was a council
Two kings could not command the same fighting force
Kings were political leaders, they had veto power over
the council (they could tell the council no)
Government
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The Kings were also religious leaders as well
There were overseers that sometimes had power
over the kings
The overseers managed a secret service
Sparta founded the first democracy ever, they had
a democracy 50 year before Athens
Religion
Worshipped Greek Gods
 They may have wore ceremonial masking
for their transition of a child to a man
 Artemis and Athena were the patron
goddess of Sparta
 Spartans held festivals, temple dedications,
and ritualistic sacrifices
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Daily Life
Men were encouraged to marry they could
be publicly shamed if they did not
 All Spartan men were soldiers until age 60
 The training boys went through was called
Agoge, it started when they were 7 and
ended when they 20
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Architecture
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Sparta based its architecture off the
Dorians
There is very little Spartan architecture still
standing
They used Doric pillars
Sparta was made up of small villages
A famous example of Spartan architecture
is the temple of Artemis Orthia
Social Structure
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Three classes
Spartans-full citizens
Helots-slaves
Periocei-Not citizens or slaves, made weapons
for Spartans
Spartans could kill Helots for being too fit or
too smart
Women could own property and they cooked,
cleaned, and made clothes
Men’s possible occupations- solider
Women had more freedom and could own
property
Writing
Wrote and spoke Greek
 Spartan boys learned to write at age 14
 They wrote information on tablets
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Technology
Made statute offerings out of lead and
pored them in to molds
 The Spartans were good making things
out of ivory
 Spartans used iron bars as currency
 They also had some coins
 Spartans spoke Greek
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Technology
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The Spartans primarily used spears and
their famous spears
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Sparta invented democracy
The Arts
In early times ivory from Sparta was
high in demand
 Spartans made beautiful pottery before
all they had was military strength.
 Spartans used to be renown for their
music and dance
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Legacy
Had a fierce-some army
 The strict military training called Agoge
 Fit men and women
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Works Consulted
www.ancientgreece.com
 http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0210200/
ancient_greece/daily_life.htm
 www.plant-medicene.com
 www.sparta.markoulakispublications.org
 www.ancientmilitaryhistory.com
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