This is the presentation for Chapter 4 Section 2, which covers the Greek City-States of Athens and Sparta in great detail. Please use your graphic organizer.

1. Athens vs. Sparta
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2. How would people describe your
country’s…
1. Government
2. Education
3. Social Structure
4. Allies
5. Military Strength
6. Lifestyle
7. Cultural Achievement

3. Comparison Activity
 In groups you will complete a chart comparing different features of
Athens and Sparta
 In groups of 2 you will create a chart comparing:
Location
Government
Education
Social Structure
Allies
Military Strength
Lifestyle
Cultural Achievement
Role of Women
Food
Population

4. Athens Sparta
Population /
Location
Government
Social Structure
Allies/Military
Lifestyle/Values
Education
Role of Women
Cultural
Achievement
Food

5. Population
Athens Sparta
By 432 B.C. largest 8,000 adult males
city-state Over 100,000
150,000 slaves and semi-
Athenians enslaved people
50,000 aliens and
100,000 slaves

6. Government
Athens Sparta
Direct democracy  Oligarchy: rule by few
 Combination of different forms
Elected officials including of gov.
10 generals, magistrates  Two kings: led army
Council of 500: administer  5 Overseers: ran day-to-day
decision made by Assembly operations of Sparta; had veto
Assembly: all male power
 Senate: 28 men over 60; elected
citizens; passed laws for life; acted as judges; proposed
Trial by jury legislation
 Assembly: all Spartan males

7. Social Structure
Athens Sparta
Freemen: all male citizens Spartiates: Land owning
Upper: Aristocrats military professionals
Land owners Perioeci: foreigners who
Naval captains and military were craftsman, artisans
leaders Helots: serfs (farmers) who
Middle: small farmers worked on the Spartiates
Lower: craftsman land
Gave 1/2 of all their
Metics: foreigners
produce to Spartiates /
Slaves: treated less harshly
military
than other Greek city-states

8. Allies/Military
Athens Sparta
Delian League: Peloponnesian League:
collection of city-states Superior army on land
that pledged loyalty to Entire culture was
Athens
Athens taxed them for
focused on the art of
protection war
Athens had very strong
navy

9. Peloponnesian War

10. Lifestyle / Values
Athens Sparta
Democratic values Militaristic values
Participation in Citizens were not
government a civic permitted to own
responsibility luxuries
Many religious holidays Children were taught to
Theatre / sporting respect elderly, women,
and warriors
events
Trading empire brought
contact with many other
cultures

11. Education
Athens Sparta
Schools taught reading, Boys: at age 7 they were taken
writing and mathematics, from their parents and taught
music, poetry, sport and the art of war
gymnastics Had to steal to survive
Ages 5-14 (wealthy went At age 20 they entered the
military
until 18)
At age 20 they were able to
Academies were set up to
marry
study philosophy, rhetoric, Girls: at age 7 they were
and ethics reading and writing,
Girls were taught gymnastics, athletics and
homemaking skills survival skills

12. Role of Women
Sparta
Athens Girls were educated
Women were kept at Could participate in sports
home Goal was to produce healthy
Could not participate babies
Married at 18
in athletics Enjoyed a great deal of
Some women held freedom
high posts at religious Could own and control their
ceremonies property
Expected to protect land
while husband was at war

13. Cultural Achievement
Athens Sparta
Art Military supremacy
Sculptures Simple lifestyle
Pottery
Architecture
“ideal” community
Drama
Literature
Philosophy
Science
Medicine
Mathematics
Democracy

14. Food
Athens Sparta
Enjoyed food from all Spartan Broth: pork,
over the empire blood, salt, vinegar
Trade brought goods Trained to dislike
from all over the luxuries and fancy food
Mediterranean region Men lived separate from
wives for much of the
time

15. Small Group Discussion
1. If you were a young teenage girl of the citizen
class, in which city-state would you rather live?
Why?
2. If you were a slave, in which would you rather
live? Why?
3. If you were a boy of the citizen class, in which
would you rather live? Why?
4. If you were a young soldier, in which would
you rather live? Why?
5. If you were a very wealthy person of the citizen
class, in which would you rather live? Why?