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SOURCE A- CLYNE, J., FORD, R., MILLAR, D., CUMMINS, N. AND CASHMAN, L. (2012) HISTORY 7: THE ANCIENT WORLD. SOUTH YARRA, VICTORIA: MACMILLIAN. S

SOURCE B- THE BRITISH MUSEUM, (N.D) ANCIENT GREECE. RETRIEVED AT: 27.9.16. FROM: http://www.ancientgreece.co.uk/menu.html

SOURCE C- RODGERS, N (N.D) THE COMPLETE HISTORY AND WARS OF ANCIENT GREECE, PUBLISHED BY HERMES HOUSE

SOURCE D- GARLAND, R (2008) ANCIENT GREECE, EVERYDAY LIFE, SANTA BARBARA, USA. PUBLISHED BY STERLING

SOURCE E- OSBOURNE, R (2004) GREEK HISTORY, LONDON. PUBLISHED BY ROUTLEDGE

SOURCE F- BESLER, J (2013) ANCIENT SPARTA. RETRIEVED 1.10.16
FROM: https://prezi.com/cmaxhsj3nuw9/ancient-sparta

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HERE IS A PHOTO OF LEONIDAS FIGHTING THE 300 WAR

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HERE IS A SMALL PHOTO OF THE GODS THAT SPARTANS BELIEVED IN

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HERE IS A SIMPLE MAP OF WHERE SPARTA AND ATHENS WERE POSITIONED

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THROUGHOUT THIS PADLET CERTAIN ASPECTS OF SPARTA WILL BE COVERED. THERE ARE FOUR MAIN QUESTIONS; QUESTION ONE TALKS ABOUT THE EDUCATION BOYS AND GIRLS WOULD RECEIVE, THE KIND OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES THEY WOULD PERFORM AND HOW SPARTAS SOCIAL WERE SPLIT UP AND A BIT OF INFORMATION ABOUT THEM, AS WELL AS WHAT JOBS WERE AVAILABLE FOR THOSE WHO COULD WORK. QUESTION TWO WILL COVER HOW SPARTA IS A POLYTHEISTIC RELIGION AND WHAT GODS AND FESTIVALS SPARTA WOULD HONOR AND CELEBRATE, ALONG WITH AN EXPLAINATION ON HOW THEY SACRAFICED AT FESTIVALS AND A BIG EVENT THAT HAPPENED AT THE TIME OF A FESTIVAL THAT CHANGED SPARTA FOR GOOD. IN THE THIRD QUESTION THE PARAGRAPH WILL EXPLAIN HOW SPARTAS GOVERNMENT WAS SPLIT UP AND TALKS A LITTLE ABOUT THE KINGS AND WHAT THEY DID FOR SPARTA, LEONIDAS AND THE THREE HUNDRED WAR WILL ALSO BE EXPLAINED A LITTLE. FINALLY, THE LAST PARAGRAPH EXPLAINS HOW DIFFICULT LIFE WAS DEPENDING ON WHAT CLASS YOU WERE IN AND WHAT GENDER YOU WERE.

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WAS LIFE DIFFICULT OR EASY IN ANCIENT SPARTA

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WAS LIFE DIFFICULT OR EASY IN ANCIENT SPARTA

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THROUGHOUT SPARTA AND MOST OF ANCIENT GREECE LIFE WOULD VARY DEPENDING ON WHAT SOCIAL CLASS YOU WERE IN AND WHAT GENDER YOU WERE. FOR FEMALES AND MALES IN THE HELOT CLASS YOU WERE VERY EQUALL IN WHAT RIGHTS YOU HAD; BUT IF YOUR MASTER WAS CRUEL AND HARSH (WHICH WAS A BIG REALITY FOR FEMALES) YOU WOULD NOT BE GIVEN MUCH FOOD OR FREEDOM. FOR THOSE IN PERIOIKOI IT REALLY DEPENDED ON WHAT OCCUPATION YOU HAD, HOW MUCH MONEY YOU WOULD RECEIVE AND IF YOU WERE FEMALE OR A MALE; AND IF YOU WERE A FEMALE IN PERIOIKOI YOU WERE LOOKED DOWN UPON AND YOU WOULD NOT RECEIVE MUCH BUISNESS. THOUGH IN THE SPARTIATE CLASS BOTH MALE AND FEMALES WOULD BE FINANCIALLY EQUAL; BUT THE MALES WOULD STILL HAVE MORE RIGHTS THEN THE FEMALES WOULD.  FOR FEMALE SPARTIATES LIFE AT HOME WAS NOT TO BAD IF YOU HAD A SLAVE BUT IF YOU DID NOT TAKING CARE OF CHILDREN AND MAINTING THE HOUSE AND LAND ALONE WAS VERY DIFFICULT. BUT THE MALES AS WELL HAD A TOUGH LIFE OF TRAINING EVERYDAY AND WORRYING NON- STOP ABOUT THEIR CHILDREN AND WIVES OFTEN MADE MEN FALL ILL AND SOMETIMES PASS AWAY.

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SPARTAN GOVERNMENT WAS SPLIT INTO FOUR DIFFERENT GROUPS. THESE GROUPS WERE CALLED MONARCHIES, DEMOCRACY, TYRANNY AND OLIGARCHY (SOURCE B); EACH ONE OF THESE GROUPS WOULD HANDLE A DIFFERENT ASPECT OF THE COMMUNITY. ALONG WITH THE GOVERNMENT SPARTA HAD TWO KINGS THAT WOULD NOT INVOLVE THEMSELVES IN POLITICS TO MUCH, AND THEY WOULD LEAD SOLDIERS INTO BATTLE. THERE WERE MANY FAMOUS LEADERS THROUGHOUT SPARTAN HISTORY BUT REALLY MAIN ONE WAS LEONIDAS; LEONIDAS BECAME FAMOUS BECAUSE OF HIS CONTRIBUTION TO SPARTA AT WAR. LEONIDAS LED THREE HUNDRED MEN INTO BATTLE; ALTHOUGH THEY DID NOT WIN, THEY DID NOT DIE IN VAIN EITHER. LEONIDAS LED ONLY THREE HUNDRED MEN INTO BECAUSE, AT THE TIME OF THE BATTLE SPARTA WERE HOLDING A FESTIVAL IN HONOR OF ONE OF THE GODS, SO LEONIDAS COLLECTED THE LEAST AMOUNT OF SOLDIERS POSSIBLE TO FIGHT, JUST BECAUSE HE DID NOT WISH TO DISRUPT THE FESTIVAL FOR THE GODS THAT WAS BEING HELD AT THE TIME. "ALL THROUGHOUT SPARTA MILITARY WAS A BIG THING AND IF YOU DID NOT CO-OPERATE PROPERLY YOU WERE CONSIDERED AN OUT CAST AND YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF (SOURCE C)".

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SPARTANS AND ALL OF GREECE A-LIKE BELIVED IN A RELIGION THAT WENT UNDER THE TITLE OF A POLYTHEISTIC RELIGION, THIS MEANT THEY BELIEVED IN MORE THAN ONE GOD. "THERE WERE FOURTEEN GODS THAT THEY BELIEVED IN: ZEUS, POSEIDON, HADES, APOLLO, ATHENA, DYONISUS, HERMES, HEPHAESTUS, ARES, DEMETER, HESTIA, ARTEMIS, APHRODITE AND HERA (SOURCE B)". EACH OF THESE GODS WOULD HAVE THERE OWN SPEACIAL HOLIDAY CELEBRATED BY US FOR THEM; DURING THIS FESTIVAL OR HOLIDAY THE PEOPLE WOULD SACRAFICE SOMETHING THAT RESEMBLED THAT GOD. ONE HOLIDAY THAT IS VERY BIG ALL ACROSS GREECE WAS HYAKINTHIA. "THIS HOLIDAY WOULD GO FOR TWO DAYS IN HONOR OF APOLLO AND HYAKINTHOS (SOURCE B)"; DURING THIS HOIDAY PEOPLE ALL ACROSS THE LAND WOULD SACRAFICE AN OBJECT OR THING IN HONOR OF THEM. SO IN OTHER WORDS THE GODS OF GREECE INFLUENCED A LOT OF PEOPLE THROUGHOUT GREECE AND IN SOME WAYS GAVE THEM HOPE AND SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN.

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SPARTA HAD THREE SOCIAL CLASS DIVISIONS. THE FIRST AND HIGHEST CLASS IS THE SPARTIATES; "THE SPARTIATES WERE ALL FINANCIALLY AND SOCIALLY EQUAL WHICH IS WHY SOME PEOPLE OF OUR GENERATION HAVE GONE TO CALLING SPARTA THE “SOCIALIST STATE” (SOURCE A)". "THE SECOND CLASS WERE CALLED THE PERIOIKOI; THESE PEOPLE WERE NON- CITIZENS BUT FREE TO WORK AS CRAFTSMEN, FARMERS, TRADESMEN AND MERCHANTS (SOURCE A)". "THE THIRD AND LARGEST CLASS BY FAR IS THE HELOTS THE HELOTS WERE ALSO KNOWN AS THE STATE OWNED SLAVES (SOURCE A)"; THE HELOTS WORKED THE LAND FOR THEIR MASTERS AS WELL AS CLEANED AND MAINTAINED THEIR HOME FOR THEIR MASTER. THE BOYS IN SPARTA WERE TO LEAVE HOME AT THE AGE OF SEVEN AND RETURNED AT THE AGE OF THIRTY; WHILE AWAY THE BOYS WERE SENT TO BARRACKS WITH FOURTEEN OTHER BOYS AS WELL AS UNDERGOING AN EDUCATION SYSTEM NAMED THE AGOGE, WITH THIS EDUCATION THEY LEARNT ALL OF THE MAIN SUBJECTS AS WELL AS UNDERWENT A FORM OF COMBAT TRAINING AS WELL AS A LOT OF PHYSICAL TRAINING. THE GIRLS WOULD ALSO UNDER GO A FORM OF EDUCATION AT THE AGE OF EIGHT BUT WERE ALSO EXPECTED TO PERFORM IN A SERIES OF PHYSICAL CHALLENGES; SPARTANS BELIEVED THAT THESE PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES WOULD PROVIDE A HEALTHY CHILD WHEN THE TIME CAME.