Sparta Questions

1. In what specific region is Sparta located?

2. What are helots?

3. Why did Sparta set up a brutal system of strict control?

4. How was Spartan Government set up?

5. Who was a citizen in Sparta?

6. What were Ephors?

7. What happened to weak, sickly children?

8. What happened to Spartan boys at the age of seven?

9. What were the boys encouraged to do? What happened if they were caught?

10. When could a man marry?

11. When could did a man move out of the barracks?

12. What were girls / women expected to do?

13. How were the girls trained?

14. What were Spartan women expected to do?

15. What rights did Spartan women have?

16. How did Sparta relate to its Greek neighbors?

17. What did Spartans look down upon?

18. In the long run, what happened to Sparta?