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The Spartans did not use coins like other Greeks. They used iron bars as money.

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Spartans were not interested in business or getting rich, just in being tough and fit.

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Spartan mothers told their sons before they left for battle, "Come back with your shield, or on it."

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The Spartans' brave fight lasted three days.

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Barring the way at the mountain pass of Thermopylae were 300 Spartan soldiers led by King Leonidas, along with a few hundred other Greeks.

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Girls also did physical exercises.

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Men lived in camp tents even when they got married.

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Spartans thought all men should marry and have children.

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The Spartans spent so much time training for battle that they would have starved without slaves called helots.

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Boys practised fighting.

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If a baby was tested and it was weak it's father would abandon it on a mountain or throw it off a cliff.

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A Spartan man had a farm, he spent a lot of his time preparing for war. He became a soldier when he was 20.

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Dead Spartans were carried home in their shields.

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Unlike other Greek states, Sparta for years had no defence-walls.

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The Spartans did not use coins like other Greeks.

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Children ran around naked.

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Sickly babies were killed.

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One king might stay at home, while the other was away fighting battles.

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Spartan women had more freedom than other Greek women - a wife ran the family farm and gave orders to the helots or slaves.

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Slaves were captured in the war although some were born as slaves.

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Spartans were not interested in business or getting rich, just in being tough and fit.

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Sparta's most famous battle was Thermopylae

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Sparta had two kings.

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A Spartan wife looked after the family farm while her husband was away training or fighting.