strong enough to be Spartan citizens. If the infants were too week or sick, they were abandoned in the country side to die
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male Spartan was at the age of seven, he was taken from his mother and sent to live in special military barracks for twenty three years.
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They were allowed to marry, but couldn’t live with their wives.
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You may have heard that ancient Greece invented democracy, but democracy was only one type of government employed by the Greeks, and when it first evolved, many Greeks thought it a bad idea. In the pre-Classical period, ancient Greece was composed of small geographic units ruled by a local king. Over time, groups of the leading aristocrats replaced the kings. Greek aristocrats were powerful, hereditary noblemen and wealthy landowners whose interests were at odds with the majority of the populace.
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1. Ancient Greece Had Many Governments
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Sparta was less interested than Athens in following the will of the people. The people were supposed to be working for the good of the state. However, just as Athens experimented with a novel form of government, so also was Sparta's system unusual. Originally, monarchs ruled Sparta, but over time, Sparta hybridized its government: The kings remained, but there were 2 of them at a time so one could go to war, there were also 5 annually-elected ephors, a council of 28 elders [technical term to learn: Gerousia], and an assembly of the people
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Helots did not have voting rights, although compared to non-Greek chattel slaves in other parts of Greece they were relatively privileged. The Spartan poet Tyrtaios refers to Helots being allowed to marry and retaining 50% of the fruits of their labor.[42] They also seem to have been allowed to practice religious rites and, according to Thucydides, own a limited amount of personal property.[43] Some 6,000 helots accumulated enough wealth to buy their freedom, for example, in 227 BC.
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There was no common Greek empire
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There was no common Gre
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Greek civilization in 800 BC
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Archaic Period
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Sparta thought that attacking the productive land of Attica, it would pressurize Athens to come forward to start the battle in a formal manner. Athens's army was definitely inferior to Sparta and allies. But this attack did not have much effect of Athens's because; their food supply mainly came from Egypt and Crimea.
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The Ionian Revolt: The start of First Persian War?
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Athenian democracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 9 views
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Athens is one of the first known democracies.
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It remains a unique and intriguing experiment in direct democracy where the people do not elect representatives to vote on their behalf but vote on legislation and executive bills in their own right. Participation was by no means open
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of Athenian freedom. The greatest and longest lasting democratic leader
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Sparta’s government was primarily an oligarchy, but it included democratic elements. Sparta had two kings, who came from two different families. But these monarchs did not have absolute power. They shared power with each other, and they also had to answer to council of elders, or gerousia.
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The Spartan government also discouraged pursuits that had no direct relationship to the military. As a result, the Spartans did not make significant achievements in art, literature, and philosophy. Nor did they leave much architecture. The Spartan leadership regarded most aspects of culture as frivolous and possibly corrupting.
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there were many different city-states in ancient Greece,
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Aristotle divided Greek governments into monarchies, oligarchies, tyrannies and democracies, and most historians still use these same divisions.
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In 510 BC, the city-state of Athens created the first democratic government,
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this is a good description of ancient Greek government
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This website talks about the government of ancient Greece.
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This website explains about Ancient Greece's government
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facts about ancient egypt for kids Facts about Egypt today ... information on ancient egypt for children
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The way children were educated was different in each city state. In Sparta, reading and writing was unimportant. Boys learned to be good fighters. In Athens citizens had to be educated to take part in voting in the Assembly. Athenian boys also went to 'wrestling school' each day, to learn many sports, not just wrestling. They had to be fit, to fight in the army.
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Government in Athens Pericles was the leader of Athens for thirty years. He was not a monarch or despot. The people of Athens elected him year after year. He declared that Athens was a democracy. In Athens, power was “in the hands of many rather than the few.” Pericles was correct about saying that Athens was a democracy at that time. Compared to other ancient governments, Athens was democratic, but it does not seem that way today. When he spoke of government by the people, he should have said government by the citizens. Citizens had more rights in Greeks cities than any of the others. They could do almost anything they wanted to do. They could own property, take part in politics and the law. Most of the men in Greece were citizens, but women, slaves, and foreigners could not be.
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n Sparta only rich men were citizens. Citizenship was like a family. It depended on birth. Only children of citizens could be citizens themselves. Children that lived in Athens all of their lives were not citizens if their parents came from other places. Athens seems undemocratic to us because women had no voice in government. Slaves were normally captured prisoners of wars. They were sold to people and whoever bought them owned them. Some slaves lived good lives with their owners. Others lived in terrible conditions or toiled in mines until death. Unlike slaves in America, slaves in Greece got paid and if they saved their money they might be able to buy their own freedom.
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Socrates has become renowned for his contribution to the field of ethics, and it is this Platonic Socrates who lends his name to the concepts of Socratic irony and the Socratic method,
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and is a type of pedagogy in which a series of questions is asked not only to draw individual answers, but also to encourage fundamental insight into the issue at hand.
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Socrates appears to have been a critic of democracy,[15] and some scholars interpret his trial as an expression of political infighting.[16] Claiming loyalty to his city, Socrates clashed with the current course of Athenian politics and society.[17] He praises Sparta, archrival to Athens, directly and indirectly in various dialogues. One of Socrates' purported offenses to the city was his position as a social and moral critic. Rather than upholding a status quo and accepting the development of what he perceived as immorality within his region, Socrates questioned the collective notion of "might makes right" that he felt was common in Greece during this period. Plato refers to Socrates as the "gadfly" of the state (as the gadfly stings the horse into action, so Socrates stung various Athenians), insofar as he irritated some people with considerations of justice and the pursuit of goodness.[18] His attempts to improve the Athenians' sense of justice may have been the cause of his execution.
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Ancient Greece - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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Ancient Greece is a large area in the north-east of the Mediterranean, where people spoke Greek
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In the 8th century B.C., the Greeks learned how to read and write a second time. They had lost
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heir alphabet was, in turn, copied by the Romans, and much of the world now uses the Roman alphabet.
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Before the Greek dark ages, Athens was a small village, home to a tribe of Ionian people. After the Greek dark ages, Athens grew rapidly until Athens was one of the two most powerful city-states in the ancient Greek world. (The other was Sparta.)
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