Ancient Sparta

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  1. 2. The Goddess of Marriage, Mothers and Families
  2. 6. Twenty-eight citizens aged sixty or over, elected for life to form (with the kings) Sparta's Gerousia.
  3. 7. A place where Spartiates gathered informally for conversation.
  4. 9. The sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion
  5. 10. Other people from other city states that were granted acess by the Spartan state in exchange for military service.
  6. 11. Five magistrates elected annually from among all Spartiates.
  7. 13. Spartan youths in their late teens.
  8. 14. The Goddess of Wisdom, War, and Useful Arts
  9. 15. A battle between the Greeks and Persia it was fought in a passe.
  10. 17. The founder of the Lyceum and the Peripatetic school of philosophy
  11. 18. What is the formation where warriors armed with long spears and interlocking shields.
  12. 21. What where boys encouraged to steal.
  13. 22. The battle which the 'Marathon' was named after.
  14. 23. The age a Spartan soldier could retire from the military.
  15. 25. In anicent Sparta women had more __ than in other city-states.
  16. 26. The ancient warrior king of the Greek city-state of Sparta,he lead the 300 spartans to victory at thermopylae.
  17. 27. The god of sea's in the ancient greek religon.
  18. 30. Council of Elders: Sparta's supreme administrative, legislative and judicial body.
  19. 31. A Spartan's major choice of weapon.
  20. 34. A large unit of weight, about 26 kg or 60 Greek minas
  21. 36. ‘boy-herdsman’. Senior Spartiate appointed as Trainer-in-Chief of the class of boys
  22. 37. The person who started the military-oriented reformation of Spartan society in accordance with the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi.
  23. 39. A provincial governor in the ancient Persian empire.
  24. 40. Later assimilated to Artemis goddess who had an important shrine at Sparta close to the west bank of the River Eurotas
  25. 41. The god of the underworld in the ancient greek religon.
  26. 42. The Spartans considered themselves to be direct descendents of the Greek hero _____.
  27. 45. A weapon spartans used to throw at their enimes.
  28. 46. The God of archery, music, poetry, prophecy, medicine, and later on the god of the sun.
  29. 47. A Spartan law
  30. 49. The king of the titans of the greek religon.
  31. 50. The god of war.
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  1. 1. A battle fought between an alliance of the Greek city-states, including Sparta, Athens and Corinth against Persia.
  2. 3. Organized, killing of random helots by youths of the Spartiate class.
  3. 4. The Goddess of Agriculture.
  4. 5. The greeks worst enemy in becoming a great empire.
  5. 8. What age did Spartan children get taken away from their home to be trained in the military.
  6. 12. At Sparta, the six senior army officers
  7. 16. The war fought between Sparta and Athens.
  8. 19. The strait where a naval battle was fought between Greece and Persia.
  9. 20. The distinctive Spartan system of upbringing and training.
  10. 24. A close quarter weapon used by Spartan Warriors.
  11. 28. A Spartan device for sending sSpartiates Full Spartan citizens, who attained this status through a combination of birth, successful completion of the agoge and election to a mess.ecret messages. The text was written on a strip of leather wound round a staff, which the sender then retained.
  12. 29. Lightly armed infantry
  13. 32. One of the six largest units of the Spartan army.
  14. 33. Heavily armed infantry who traditionally formed the principal troops of a classical Greek army.
  15. 35. or Peers, (Homoioi). Spartiates' term for themselves.
  16. 38. Greek Goddess of the Hunt, Forests and Hills, the Moon, Archery
  17. 43. What was the thing that Spartan's where worried that, the helots would do.
  18. 44. The name of the servent's that served Sparta, that was usually captured from battle's Sparta won.
  19. 48. The sheild used by Spartan warriors.