Sparta Glossary

Sparta had a/an

• democracy
• monarchy
• oligarchy
• tyrant

Spartan women __________________

• had more freedoms than other Greek women.
• could own property
•  were healthy and strong
• all of these

Who were the helots?

• nobles who ran the country

• slaves who worked the land

• merchants or artisans who lived in the villages

• soldiers who protected the city-state

At what age were boys sent away to the military camps?

• 7

• 8

• 9

• 10

Who were the perioikoi ?

• nobles who ran the government

• slaves who farmed the land

• merchants or artisans who traded

• soldiers who protected the city-state

Teenage boy who supervised younger boys

• ephor

• eirene

• hoplite

• polemarch

System of Spartan education

• agoge

• ekklesia

• Great Rhetra

• porphyry

Spartan assembly

• ephorate

• agoge

• ekklesia

• gerousia

concept of order and good government

• Utopia

• Eunomia

• Eurotas

• Isthmus

river flowing through Sparta

• Tiber

• Eurotas

• Nile

• Danube