Spartans vs. Athens

1. SPARTANS VS. ATHENS
Reported By: Bea Joy Lorraine A. Arcenio
III-9 BSE History
Philippine Normal University

2. 776 B.C.E.
•First Olympic Games
happened.

5. EXPANSION OF THE GREEK WORLD
•From the Middle of the 8th century B.C.E.
until 6th century B.C.E., the Greeks vastly
expanded the territory, they controlled
their wealth and contacts with people.

10. MAGNA GRAECIA
Means “GREAT GREECE” by ROMANS

11. THE MAJOR STATES
(Sparta and Athens)

14. 725 B.C.E.
• FIRST MESSENIAN WAR
• WAR BETWEEN SPARTA AND MESSENIA
• REASONS: PRESSURE OF POPULATION AND LAND
HUNGER
• RESULT: SPARTA WON
• BENEFIT: LAND OF MESSENIA

16. 650 B.C.E.
• SECOND MESSENIAN WAR
• WAR BETWEEN SPARTA AND MESSENIA
• REASON: HELOTS REBELLED WITH ARGONS AND OTHER PELOPONESIAN CITIES
• RESULT: MESSENIA WON
• BENEFIT: ABANDONING THE CONTROL OF SPARTA TO MESSENIA

18. SPARTA, THE MILITARY CITY

19.  BELIEF AND CULTURE
•Considered itself as protector of Greek

20.  SPARTANS SOCIETY
•EDUCATION: NOT OPEN TO
EDUCATION
•MILITARY STRENGTH AND OBEDIENCE

21. MALE SPARTANS

22. SPARTAN’S AGE TASKS
BIRTH Officials of the state control
and owned them
SEVEN YEARS OF AGE Trained in athletics and the
military arts and taught to
endure privation, to bear
physical pain
TWENTY YEARS OF AGE Enrolled in army
THIRTY YEARS OF AGE Became full citizen. Marriage
was permitted
SIXTY YEARS OF AGE Spartan can stop working as
an Spartan army

23.  WOMEN SPARTANS
•Could own property
•Free of all chores
•Stronger
•More on gymnastics

25.  SPARTAN GOVERNMENT
•The constitution was mixed.
MONARCHY
OLIGARCHY
DEMOCRACY

26. MONARCHY:
•RULED BY KINGS
•Two kings with equal powers
•Elected for life

27. OLIGARCHY
•Represented by council of elders
consisting of twenty-eight men over age
of sixty

28. DEMOCRACY
• Spartan assembly consisted of all males over thirty.
• Final authority
• Their function is to ratify decisions already taken or to
decide

29.  ECONOMY
•Sparta was mainly an
agricultural land because
of its inland location

31. BELIEF AND CULTURE
•Wanted to control more
and more land.

33. ATHENS SOCIETY
•Education:
Boys:
not for military area
good education

35. ATHEN GOVERNMENT
• (picture)

36. 7TH CENTURY
•Athens was typical aristocratic rule
•No written law
•Areopagus, governed the state, council of nobles

38. 632 B.C.E.
•Draco was given special
authority to codify and publish
laws.
•Laws were written on blood.

41. 594 B.C.E
•Solon as archon, changed the law.
•“shaking off of burdens”
•Economic action
•Left Athens and went to Egypt

43. 508 B.C.E.
•Cleisthenes I, introduce INSOMIA, EQUAL
LAWS

44. • He made the DEME
• Purely political unit that elected its
own officers in every tribe.

45. 5000-6000 men
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50 MEN

46. •10 GENERALS WERE ELECTED DUE TO
EXPERIENCE
•“LOT” VOTING
•Ekklesia, Athenians Assembly

48. Founder of
Democracy

49. ECONOMY
•More on trading