Comparing Athens and Sparta + Golden Age

Women had more rights than in other city-states and participated in sports competitions

• Athens

• Sparta

Valued education – rich boys were trained to be good citizens

• Athens

• Sparta

Girls did not go to school – they were trained to be good mothers and wives

• Athens

• Sparta

No democracy

• Athens

• Sparta

When males turned 18, they entered military school for two additional years until they graduated at age 20.

• Athens

• Sparta

Education was focused on the arts

• Athens

• Sparta

Although women could not vote, they were citizens.

• Athens

• Sparta

Service to the state was the most important, even above the family

• Athens

• Sparta

Who was the leader of Athens from 461 to 429 BCE?

• Homer

• Socrates

• Herodotus

• Pericles

Who was the mathematician and inventor who said "Eureka!"?

• Pythagoras

• Archimedes

• Thucydides

• Hippocrates