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Ancient Greece Worksheet
chapter five, pp. 70-81 (bottom)

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1. In Sparta, there existed a political system known as ___________, or “rule by the ______.”
2. Other city-states were ruled at times by a ________, a sole ruler who seized power in _____________ fashion.
3. Some other city-states created early forms of ________ (“rule by the people”).
4. Spartan society was devoted to __________ readiness. Its way of life became famous for its ________, which showed most prominently in the Spartan ____________.
5. Sparta’s geography made it easy to _________. Enemies could not threaten Sparta by the _________.
6. Sparta retained two leaders known as _______. They served as the ______ heads of Sparta and the _________ of its army.
7. The “few” who ruled Sparta were a group of ____ men over ____ years old, joined by the two _________. This group of men was called the “_______ of the elders.” They formulated proposals that were sent to an ________ of all free adult males. For the most paper, the council was expected to be a “rubber ________” for the elders.
8. A board of five annually elected _______ counterbalanced the influence of the kings and the council. Their job was to ensure the supremacy of the ______.
9. Spartans credited a leader named __________ with reforming the legal system.
10. Unlike other Greeks, the Spartans had no ________ laws.
11. The Spartans viewed martial _____ as the supreme male value.
12. Those peoples conquered by Sparta were reduced to the status of _____, slaves belonging to the entire __________. They were expected to labor as _______ and household _________ to free Spartan _________ from doing any work. Spartan men wore very long _____ to show that they were “gentlemen” rather than laborers.
13. When the Spartans ran out of arable land, they attacked their neighbors, the _____________. They captured the territory of _________, which amounted to ___ percent of the Peloponnesian peninsula, and reduced the conquered people to the status of ________. The conquered people were always looking for a chance to ______ against Sparta.
14. The Spartan leaders sought to erect a ______ barrier between their citizens and the helots.
15. A helot could become a quasi-citizen in an emergency situation when he was needed to serve in the Spartan ______.
16. According to Xenephon, the helots hated the Spartans: “They said they would be glad to ____ then raw.”
17. Helots were required to give their Spartan masters ___ percent of everything they produced. This food was intended to support ___ or ____ Spartans.
18. Boys in Sparta lived at home until they were _____ years old, then were taken away to live in communal ________ with other males until they were ______ years old.
19. Spartan boys and men spent most of their time __________, ___________, ___________ with weapons, and listening to tales of __________ and ___________ told at ___________ meals.
20. Spartan boys were not allowed to ______ at will. This characteristic of Spartan men gives us our English word “________.“
21. Boys in Sparta were purposely ________ so that they would develop the skills of stealth by ____________ food. Yet if they were caught, ______________ and ______________ followed immediately. Later, older boys went into the _________ and sought to murder any ________ likely to foment _____________. Those men who survived this training were certified as _______. Only the sons of the ___________ family were exempted from such training.
22. Each Spartan male who was a full citizen had to gain entry to a group that _______ together at a common _________. He was expected to contribute a regular amount of _________, ____________, __________, __________, and _________ to the mess. Some meat, likely from wild ______, was also contributed. A man who failed to contribute was expelled and lost his ______________.
23. The men of Sparta learned that their primary loyalty was to the _______, and not their genetic _____________.
24. Spartan women were renowned throughout the Greek world for their relative _________________.
25. Other Greeks thought it was scandalous that Spartan girls exercised with _______.
26. Spartan women, like men, could own ______ privately. More and more came into their hands as time went on because the ______ population declined.
27. Until he was ____, a Spartan husband was not allowed to live with his family.
28. By the Classical Age, as Sparta’s population declined, men were ________ required to get married, and _____ were subjected to fines and public ridicule.
29. Opposition to oligarchic domination brought the first Greek _______ to power. The most famous early example of this arose at __________, when the ________ family came to power. They were overthrown by ___________, a member of the social elite.
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Short answer

1. What powers did the five overseers in Sparta have?







2. How did the Spartans treat the helots?








3. How was the life of Spartan women different from that of other Greek women?








4. What caused the rise of tyrants in Greek city-states? What did tyrants generally do -- and generally not do?