Sparta Terminology

The area separated from mainland Greece by the narrow Isthmus of Corinth

• Laconia

• Hellas

• Peloponnese

• Eurotas

A military dining club

• kleros

• polis

• stasis

• syssition

governing council of rich land-owning aristocrats

• oligarchy

• democracy

• monarchy

• aristocracy

ancient Greek heavy infantry

• peltast

• psiloi

• myrmidon

• hoplite

society ruled by fathers

• polytheism

• panhellenic

• patriarchal

• polis

good order

• eunomia

• stasis

• phylai

• obai

a chief magistrate of Sparta

• gerontes

• ephors

• ekklesia

• homoioi

What year (circa) was Sparta was founded in....

• 800 BC

• 550 BC

• 1000 BC

• 900 BC

When did the First Messenian War occur?

• 640-620 BC

• 480 BC

• 730 - 710 BC

• 800 BC

The Battle of Leuctra took place in the year...

• 479 BC

• 550 BC

• 352 BC

• 371 BC