Social structure and geography
The 4 different groups in Spartan society.
What is Spartiates, perioikoi, inferiors and helots?
The age at which Spartan males began their military careers.
What is 7?
The 3 main festivals in Sparta.
What are the Hyakinthia, Gymnopaedia and Karneia?
The number of kings in Sparta.
What is 2?
The Spartans used this instead of currency.
What are iron bars?
The law-giver of Sparta.
Who is Lycurgus?
Spartan state-sponsored education system which emphasised obedience, endurance, courage, and self-control.
What is the agoge?
The local goddess that was connected to Artemis.
Who is Orthia?
The democratic element/s to Sparta's government.
What are the ekklesia and the ephors?
The individuals responsible for trade.
Who are the perioikoi?
These mountains formed a natural barrier to Sparta and limited communication with other regions.
What are the Taygetus mountain range, the Parnon mountain range and the Arcadian mountains?
The formation within which hoplites fought.
What is a phalanx formation?
What is 10 days?
The qualifications for membership of the gerouisa.
What is aged over 60, had completed period of military service and led a respectable life?
The amount of Sparta's land Aristotle said women had control of.
What is 2/5?
Spartiates who disgraced themselves with cowardly behaviour became this.
Who are the inferiors?
Small groups of Spartiates who may have been involved in the killing of helots.
Who were the krypteia?
The Spartans were more concerned about this god's ability to bring earthquakes than his other role.
Who is Poseidon?
The ephors did this every month.
What is swore an oath to not disturb the monarchy so long as the king's oath to rule in accordance with the law was maintained?
Main exports of Sparta (5).
What is wool, wine, oil, bronze and pottery?
The name of the Spartan port in the Lakonian Gulf.
What is Gytheum?
At this age Spartiates became frontline soldiers.
What is 23?
The mythical twin heroes.
Who are Castor and Pollux?
The way in which Spartans voted.
What is voting by acclamation?
The kleros needed to provide these 4 things.
What is support a Spartan citizen and his family, provide for a Spartiate’s continuing contribution to his syssition, provide a surplus so that the state had the income to pay for armour and equipment made by the perioikoi and support the helots and their families?