Athens and Sparta

Based on trade-good harbor, near sea

Land couldn’t support food supply-need trade

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• Sparta

Agora-huge marketplace where goods were traded

List of good traded-honey, olives, wood, silver

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• Sparta

Boys-home until age 6 or 7, then schooling

Girls-help around the house, no reading or writing

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Girls learned to clean, spin thread, weave cloth, sing and dance. Married around age 15, some marriages arranged

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Main purpose was to produce good effective citizens.

Learned reading, writing, math, literature, sports, music. Learned by memorization, books were expensive.

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• Sparta

Military training at age 18 (earlier in some cases).

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• Sparta

Children taught to be tough and strong.

Valued discipline and strength.

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• Sparta

Taught to fight at age seven.

Boys lived in barracks, trained to become brave soldiers.

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Fitness/military test at age 20-became citizens/soldiers if they passed.

Continued to eat, train, sleep in barracks.

Couldn’t live at home until age 30, continued to serve in military.

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• Sparta

Relied on farming and conquering, not much trade. Took land to grow more food.

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• Sparta