The boys were trained to fight and steal food. If they were caufght they would get beaten up!

only men went into to battle.

Spartans lived in harsh conditions, without any luxuries, to make them tough fighters.

Physical training and fitness were thought as important parts of a spartan childs education.

The Spartans were one of the most feared armys ever!

It was the only city state which had a full army.

Sparta had its own system of government which was very different to other city states. Rule was shared between two kings, the gerousia and the Assembly.

The spartan men were well known for being brave and fierce.

The spartan soilders moved into the barracks at the age of 20 and and became fully soilders

During the Dark ages, a time when people forgot to write, it declined, but in the early Archaic period, around 900 BC it began to grow again.

you would be sent to the barraks at the age of 7 for training such as stealing from a farm or runnig past whips to collect cheese or eggs.

Spartons where so busy training for battle they would starve

Around 1100 BC, the Dorians came and conquered the territory.

sparta is one of the most main city in greece

Boys wouldn't learn to read, write, do maths or play music, but would instead learn how to be a good soldier.

They spent their whole lives training and fighting.

in the battle of Thermopylae, 300 spartans and 700 thespiaes defended for 3 days against a persion army, which had 2 million troops

Boys went to live at an army barrackts at age 7

sparta was reconized as the overall leader of the combined.

sickly babies where killed

Spartan girls lived at home with their mothers and fathers, instead of barracks, but they also learned how to be tough, with plenty of excercise.

The spartans main weapon was a spear, which was 7 to 9 feet long.

Sparta has there own system of government.

sparta had its own system of goverment which was very different from the outher city states.

The girls also learned how to run houses and how to spin and weave

Thier 2ndry weapon was a sword called the xiphos.

Sparta was ruled by 2 kings and a council by Elders.

The biggest change in Sparta's history, though, came around 700 BC, when the Spartans seem to have conquered a group of people living near them, in Messenia.

Even after they had got married, the men ate all their meals with the other soldiers, instead of their families.

Thier other weapon was another sword, which was shaped like a hatchet.

The Spartan army was known for being the best in greece.

woman would have healty babies that would be good solders

sparta is in greece

In 441 BC the Spartans attacked Athens becaus they thought that they were pushing them around too much, this was known as the Peloponnesion war.

sparta and athens fought loads of times.

most of the their armour was made out of brass and bronze.

When little Spartan boys turned seven, they left home to live in dormitories with all the other Spartan boys their age.

it was the only city state that had a full time army!

sparta was one of the main citys in ancient greece .

The spartans spent so much time traning for battle that they would have starved without slaves

When the Persians attacked again, in 480 BC, the Spartans wanted to show that they really were a strong army, just as good as the Athenians or better.

At first the Spartans were losing the Peloponnesion war but then there was a plague in athens and Athens started losing the war.

The Spartans used light armour, because they mostly couldnt aford heavy armour and they thought it slowed them down.

The Spartans won even more when an Athenian called Alcibiades told them to build a navy

Boys were not aloud at home at night, they had to sleep with other boys.

By 338 BC, Sparta had been taken over by Philip of Macedon, like all the rest of Greece.

Helots are citezens who give people land and farm it for them

In 369 BC, the Theban army came down into the Peloponnese and helped the Messenians

Together with Athens, Sparta is one of the best known city-states of ancient Greece, but during the classical period, it was a very different place to Athens.

The spartan men dressed very simple, because they had to be free to move, (This was because they were always training for war)

In the end the Spartans won the Peloponnesian war and took over the city of Athens and destroyed the fortification walls around it.

However, archaeological evidence shows us that Sparta was not always such a military-minded city.

Boys at the age of 7 were sent to army barraks.

The spartans didnt wear sandles.

It was tough being sick in sparta becuse babies that where sick got killed

The women of sparta had to give up their sons at a young age

As adults, Spartan men did not live with their families but lived in barracks, they occasionally visited their families

The first women to win gold in the olympics was a spartan

As adults, the woman had alot of freedom, unlike many other Greek cities.

The sparten women were major landd owners

A hoplite had to pay for his own armour unless his father was killed in battle.

Spartan boys were inspected at birth by elder and any deformed were discarded

All the spartans followed the strict law of Lykourgos.

all spartans followed a strict law of lykourgos

aspartins wife looked after the farm.

All spartans would be issued one cloak for 1 year

Any spartan was considered a coward if showed any fear

The famous 300 spartans who fought at Thermopylaewere picked as they all had living sons

spartin men and women spent very little time together.

spartn men spend more tmeon there long luxurios hair more then woman do today.

Sparta is situatedon the banks of river eurotas in laiconia!

The spartins respnded whith single terse reply.

The spartins where a minority of the lakonian population.

The rule of Sparta was shared by 2 kings one of them was called Assembly!

Spartans had to live harsh with no luxuries.

husbands became so dominated by their wifes!

There is a festival called Hyacinthia

Hyacinthia is a spartan person so they celebrate the day he died.

The spartans did not beleive in art or other pluces of life!

During the 5th century BC Sparta was very powerful!

Spartan bronze and ivory works produced beautiful objects and poetry flourished!

Sparta focused on producing good soldiers for the army.

Spartans mainly ate pork stew.

The pork stew was made of Salt vinegar pork and blood!

Spartan women had more rights than any other woman in the ancient world.

Sparta was at its height of power at the beginning of the 5th century.

The Spartans spent so much time training for battle that they would have starved without slaves called helots.

Greeks said that in a battle one soldier would be worth several other men.

When Sparta had two kings one might stay at home whilst the other went away to fight at war.

In Thermopylae a huge Spartan army was trying to invade Greece but barring the way at Thermopylae was 300 Spartan soldiers lead by king Leonidas.

At the end of the battle of Thermopylae Leonidas and his Spartans lay dead, the Persians marched on to capture Athens but soon after were defeated in a battle.

Sparta is a polis!

Sparta built a fleet and besaighed Athens.

Leonidas commanded the spartan army at the battle of Thermopylae.

Sparta the city state had greatest military power of Greece and played catalytic role in history of Peloponnese.

The majority of inhabitants of Sparta were slaves who, every autumn during the Crypteia, could be killed by a Spartan citizen without fear of blood or guilt.

Sparta begins with when the Peloponnesus the invasions of Dorian Greek tribes coming from Macedonia and Epirus.

The Peloponnesian War was the greatest series of conflicts between the two states which resulted in dismantling of the Athenian Empire.

Life was very different in ancient Sparta than it was in the rest of ancient Greek city-states.

Sparta's government was an oligarchy. The people were ruled by a small group of warriors.

Sparta was named after king lacedeamons wife, who was the founder of Sparta

Sparta was ruled by 2 kings
a council of elders and a council of oversees

Sparta itself was a congloment of 4 villages without any walls

In the Sparta of the 5th century BC, it seems people believed that Sparta had always been an austere, military-minded city.

Spartan boys had to complete a very tough programme of education which moulded them into good soldiers.

Like other Greek cities, Sparta had traded widely to get luxury items and had been home to poets and craftsmen producing beautiful objects.

If a Spartan soldier was afraid and ran away he was in disgrace and had to prove his bravery in the next battle.