Athens vs. Sparta: The Peloponnesian
War Game

• 1.
Restroom/Water
• 2. Copy homework into agenda
• 3. Place study guide and today’s handout into binder.
• 4. Loose-leaf paper with heading and title
– Ancient
Greece
Mythology and
Geography
Review.
• 1. True or False – Ancient Greeks believed their world began by gods and mystical beings creating objects and fighting for control of the world.
• 2. True or False – Myths were created to explain why things occurred.
• 3. True or False – Ancient Greece’s geography was similar to other civilizations because of its fertile river valley.
• 4. True or False – the ancient Greeks relied on colonies and trade with them to obtain products they could not produce in the Greek city-states.
• 5. True or False – Ancient Greece was organized into a huge empire with one central government because of its flat fertile land.
• 6. True or False – because of Ancient Greece’s location to Persia, the two civilizations often worked together in war.
• 7. True or False – Greek city-states were able to prevent being conquered by the Persians because of
Greece’s mountains and seas.

• Today you will focus on the two most powerful city-states of Ancient
Greece = Athens and
Sparta.
• 1. Provide at least three ways that Athens and
Sparta are similar to each other? Different to each other?
• 2. Which City-State’s beliefs/laws/ideas do you most agree with? why? Disagree with?
Why
• 3. How did the two city-states differences eventually lead to their downfall?

• 1. Answer the questions from the small slip of paper.
• 2. Use the handout to assist you. The chart has detailed accounts of life in the two citystates.
• 3. Also, you will need to read the right-side of the handout to find out how Athens and
Sparta differences led to their downfall.

1. Compare and Contrast Athens and Sparta.
Athens
• Government
– Democracy – citizens rule
– Radom voting, debated laws
• Economy
– Traded goods
– coins
• Education
– varied courses for citizenship
– 2 year military
– boys
• Women
– No rights
– “House work”
• Slaves
– Work & treated varied on owner
Sparta
• Government
– Oligarchy-small group rule chosen by vote, limited debating
• Economy
– Farming & stealing
– NO TRADE!!!
– Iron bars
• Education
– Warriors, with physical development
– Military till 60
– Boys & girls
• Women
– Own and control property
– Managed husband’s land
• Slaves
– Harshly
– Randomly killed yearly

• Alexander the Great conquered Greek and spread
Greek ideas.
• The importance of keeping Greek ideas alive is because it led to the development of western civilization in Europe and America.
• Medicine, math, science, etc.

• 1. Each team will be asked a questions from the lesson.
• 2. If the question is correct – they get the chance to “kill the enemy in that space”.
– A. If the enemy is there – I will call out “KILL”.
– B. If the enemy is not there or if you choose your own people –
I will call out “There are no enemy soldiers here at this time”.
• 3. If the question is not correct – the other team immediately gets the chance to choose a space to “kill the enemy”.
• 4. The winning team will be the one to kill all enemy forces first.