2.3: Athens and Sparta

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2.3: Athens and Sparta

What were the difference between Sparta and Athens?

What were the causes and effects of the Peolopennesian war?

What do you already know about the ancient Greek?

What do you already know about Athens?

Sparta

• Military state
• Ruled by Aristocratic elite and two kings.
• When boys turned 7 they were seperated from their mother for military training.
• Schooling of girls was also full of lots of physical excersize and sports. Goal: turn them into strong mothers who would bear strong sons.

Athens

• Democracy: governed by freeborn Athenian men: citizens (Citizenship).

• Women and girls from wealthy families stayed indoors. Girls were taught the duties of Athenian woman: weaving and supervising female slaves. 

• Athens suffered under persian invadors -> Pericles decided to rebuilt the acropolis -> attracted  craftsmen, artists and philosophers. wealthy/ culture.

Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC)

• Differences between Athens and Sparta led to war between the two and their allies.
• Sparta was stronger on land, Athens on sea with its navy.

• Sparta won, because it builded it's own navy with Persian funds. democracy was dismantled and replaced with an oligarchy of 30 men. -> Cruel. Democracy was restored in 403 BC.

• 338 BC: King Philip of Macedon defeated the Greek army -> Greece was in hist power. The period of Greek independent Poleis ended.

Which Polis won the Peloponnesian war?

In wich year the period of Greek independent Poleis ended?

1. 431 BC
2. 404 BC
3. 338 BC

Name 3 differences between Sparta and Athens

Cause and effect

A cause describes why or what makes something happen.

The thing that happens is the effect. 

TOGETHER:

Paragraph 2.2 Greeks and Persians (p. 34-36) exc. 7, 8

Workshop

Coursebook: Par. 2.3: Athens and Sparta (p. 38 – 39)

 Workbook: Par. 2.3: Athens and Sparta ( 37-38) exc. 1, 4, 5