Chapter 4 - Sparta

Question 1

Another name for Sparta?

Answer 1

Lacedaemon

Question 2

Organized around 510 B.C by Sparta, included most poleis on the Peloponnesus.

Answer 2

Peloponnesian League

Question 3

Male dining group of Spartan soldiers, ~15 members

Answer 3

Syssition

Question 4

Historians say that most accounts of Sparta present a very idealized image of Sparta

Answer 4

Spartan Mirage

Question 5

All male citizens convened here monthly

Answer 5

Assembly

Question 6

He estimated around 1,000 Spartan male soldiers by 330 BC

Answer 6

Aristotle

Question 7

Sparta’s council of elders, 28 over 60

Answer 7

Gerousia

Question 8

Spartan founding father and lawgiver

Answer 8

Lycurgus

Question 9

Sparta’s secret polive, monitored non-Spartans

Answer 9

Krypteia

Question 10

Boys left their families to begin training around this age

Answer 10

Seven

Question 11

Spartain boys training in the military, 14-20

Answer 11

Ephebes

Question 12

They oversaw Spartan education and could dispose a king

Answer 12

Ephors

Question 13

Lived in Sparta’s region, served in military, but not citizens

Answer 13

Perioeci

Question 14

Spartan slaves recieved this lovely gift each year from masters

Answer 14

Beating

Question 15

This modern crime was not immoral, as long as you weren’t caught

Answer 15

Stealing

Question 16

Spartan conquered and dominited this region in 8th Cent. BC, freed in 4th Cent.

Answer 16

Messenia

Question 17

Where was Sparta located?

Answer 17

Laconia

Question 18

Spartan men had to stay fit for fighting till what age?

Answer 18

Sixty

Question 19

Which village got added to Sparta by force around 8th Century?

Answer 19

Amyclae

Question 20

Whats Sparta’s only known colony?

Answer 20

Toras

Question 21

What governmental position had 2 people serve at the same time, and was hereditary?

Answer 21

Basilel

Question 22

Men of equal status

Answer 22

Homoioi

Question 23

What was the process that the Spartan’s would do to abandon male babies who had issues from birth called?

Answer 23

Infanticide

Question 24

Spartans well known currency

Answer 24

Iron

Question 25

This flows near Sparta

Answer 25

Curotas

Question 26

Essentially slaves, owned by the state, provided Sparta with food

Answer 26

Helots

Question 27

Spartan education for boys divided into this many age groups

Answer 27

Five

Question 28

How many men were a part of the Gerousia.

Answer 28

Their were 28

Question 29

When did Messenia finnally regain its independence from Sparta?

Answer 29

369 B.C

Question 30

Which of the following reasons was why Invaded Messenia?

Answer 30

To gain fertile land

Question 31

How long was the first Messenian War?

Answer 31

20 years

Question 32

When did the Second Messenian war occure and why at this time?

Answer 32

The war occured in 669 BC because the Sparta lost the Battle of Hysiae to Argos so they were weak.

Question 33

What war did Sparta lose in around 669 B.C.

Answer 33

Battle of Hysiae

Question 34

How was marriage chosen?

Answer 34

In a dark groping rooms

Question 35

What did Spartans do in assembly’s that was different ?

Answer 35

They would vote on matters but not dispute.

Question 36

Used this as a currency only in Sparta

Answer 36

Iron

Question 37

This was how many Aristotle estimated soldiers of Sparta

Answer 37

1000

Question 38

The only known colony of Sparta

Answer 38

Toris

Question 39

How many miles were the Spartans from the shore.

Answer 39

27 miles

Question 40

What English word comes from lyconia.

Answer 40

Lyconic

Question 41

Name the Greek region

Answer 41

Lyconia

Question 42

How were spartans supposed to look

Answer 42

A longbeard with no mustache

Question 43

How old do you have to be in Eophors

Answer 43

30years old