Name _______________________________________________ Period _____________
Ch. 7,The Glory of Ancient Greece, Section 2: Athens and Sparta, p. 206-212
A. Living in Sparta, p. 207
1. Sparta’s army easily equaled that of ____________________ in the 400s B.C.
2. Changes of war and government turned ____________________ into a powerful _____________________.
3. The city-state of Sparta established one basic rule: always put the ___________________________ above your own.
4. When the Spartans conquered land around their own, they turned the people into ________________.
a. Helot:____________________________________________________________________________________
5. Living in fear of a ________________ revolt, the Spartans turned their city into an _______________________, where
they treated the _______________ very harshly.
B. Growing Up in Sparta, p. 208
I.
Growing Up Male
1. At the age of ____ a boy left his home to live in a ________________ with other boys.
2. Boys were expected to bear _____________________, ____________________, and
__________________________________________.
3. At the age of ______ a young man officially became a soldier and remained soldiers until they turned ______.
II. Growing Up Female
1. Like the boys, the girls also _________________ and _________________ in __________________ and
______________________________.
2. Spartan women were trained to _____________________ and build up their bodies so they could have
___________________________________________.
3. Spartan women were allowed to __________________ and even take some part in _____________________.
III. Spartan Attitudes
1. Spartans didn’t mingle with other ______________________.
2. They were not allowed to ________________.
3. They looked down on the desire for ______________________ and __________________.
4. Spartan warriors were known for their ______________________ and ____________________.
C. The Persians Invade, p. 210
I.
The Expanding Persian Empire
1. ____________________________ had founded the Persian Empire in the mid 500s B.C.
2. By 520 B.C, the Persians had gained control of the ___________________ colonies on the
_________________ of Asia Minor.
II.
Battle at Marathon
1. In the fall of 490 B.C., a force including thousands of ________________ landed in ____________________.
2. The soldiers gathered at ________________________ about 25 miles north of _______________________.
3. Although the Athenians put together a small army, the Persians outnumbered them ___________________.
4. Without warning the ____________________ attacked the __________________ soldiers and had killed
___________________________ Persians, but had lost ____________________ soldiers themselves.
III.
Conflict and the Athenian Empire, 211
1. While Persia was distracting the Greek city-states, they were no longer _______________ each other.
2. Their victory over the ________________ increased the Greeks’ sense of their own _____________________.
3. __________________ emerged from the war as the most powerful __________________ in Greece.
4. The years following the Persian Wars were the ____________________________ of Athens.
D. Sparta and Athens at War, p. 212
I.
The Peloponnesian War
1. Allies of Athens paid ___________________ to the city state for ____________________, in case the
___________________ caused more trouble.
2. Other city-states began to fear and resent _________________.
3. They looked to _______________________ which had not joined the alliance for ______________________.
4. Sparta formed the ____________________________ League, named after ________________________, the
southern Greek _________________ where Sparta was located.
5. In 431 B.C., Sparta and _________________ fought against ____________________ and its allies, beginning
the _______________________________.
a. Peloponnesian War: __________________________________________________________________.
6. ___________________________ let the people from surrounding countryside move inside the city walls.
7. The overcrowded conditions led to a __________________.
a. Plague: _____________________________________________________________________________
8. By the time the plague ended ______ years later, about _________ of the people of _____________ died,
including _________________________.
II.
Fall of Athens
1. ______________ never recovered from its losses during the ____________.
2. _______________________ allied itself to its former common enemy to have the advantage of the
________________ navy.
3. In 405 B.C., with their new allies, _____________________ staged a _________________.
a. Blockade: ___________________________________________________________________________
4. The ____________________ surrounded and closed the _________________ where ____________________
received ___________________________.
5. _____________________ and ______________, the ____________________ surrendered.
6. The victorious _____________________ knocked down the walls of ___________________, destroyed its
______________________, and decimated its empire.
7. _______________ never again dominated the Greek world.