“Picture it! Sparta, 490 B.C. Sparta, a powerful city-state in ancient Greece, is known for learning one thing, war. Different from its neighboring city-state, Athens, boys were taken away from their mothers at the age of seven and were taught the art of war, instead of mathematics, Philosophy, and other subjects. The Spartans are also known for defeating thousands of enemy soldiers with only 300 Spartan men at the battle of Thermopylae (even though they all died.) Those are the things I do know. There are a lot of facts I don’t about Sparta. I have three major questions. They are the following: what was the real training regiment for the boys of Sparta versus the myths and legends that are circulating in the world today, what were the roles
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It was a decision between Leonidas of Sparta, or just Sparta in general. I went with just Sparta. Finding resources for Sparta was really easy. I searched it on Google, and the first link I found was from The History Channel. It had some neat information for all three of my research questions. Other links include BBC.co.uk, Diffen.com, which compare two objects, and Ancient History Encyclopedia. They all shared a lot of common facts about Sparta, with some differences. Using the CARRDS evaluation I was able to check if the websites were helpful or detrimental to my paper. Two out of the four websites had four out of the six criteria needed, one website had five out of six, and the last website had all six criteria. Since BBC UK and The History Channel are known to people around the country and the world I checked the about us page on Diffen.com and the Ancient History Encyclopedia. Diffen quotes, “We believe that making the right choices should be easier than it is today. We believe that this is possible with information that is unbiased, free, concise and easy to understand. Diffen aims to provide a one-stop shop for such information… Diffen, inspired by Wikipedia, is a wiki that anyone can edit” (About Diffen). Since it is like Wikipedia, I was forced to discard this …show more content…
First of all, the girls of Sparta had an official education (“Ancient Greece-Sparta”). During their teenage and early adult stage of their lives, “in” order “to attract mates, females engaged in athletic competitions, including javelin-throwing and wrestling, and also sang and danced competitively” (History.com Staff). When a female found a husband, she would cut her short before they were married (History.com Staff). Once married, they are granted, by Spartan law to have land. The only thing the woman had to watch over the family land. She did not have to chores because Spartan had a class of people called the Helots or the slaves that took care of the chores (History.com Staff). Since Spartan soldiers died and/or retired, the women of Sparta were needed to help repopulate the lost soldiers. The father of the wife that had more baby boys could be rewarded by the Spartan king (History.com Staff). In Ancient Greece, there were two, powerful, city-states, Sparta and Athens. They may have been the most powerful and well known city-states, but they were polar opposites. One of their major differences was their form of government. History.com states, “While Athens was trying Democracy as a form of government, its rival Sparta had two kings. One king might stay at home, while the other was away fighting battles” (“Sparta”). Athens had a government
It was a decision between Leonidas of Sparta, or just Sparta in general. I went with just Sparta. Finding resources for Sparta was really easy. I searched it on Google, and the first link I found was from The History Channel. It had some neat information for all three of my research questions. Other links include BBC.co.uk, Diffen.com, which compare two objects, and Ancient History Encyclopedia. They all shared a lot of common facts about Sparta, with some differences. Using the CARRDS evaluation I was able to check if the websites were helpful or detrimental to my paper. Two out of the four websites had four out of the six criteria needed, one website had five out of six, and the last website had all six criteria. Since BBC UK and The History Channel are known to people around the country and the world I checked the about us page on Diffen.com and the Ancient History Encyclopedia. Diffen quotes, “We believe that making the right choices should be easier than it is today. We believe that this is possible with information that is unbiased, free, concise and easy to understand. Diffen aims to provide a one-stop shop for such information… Diffen, inspired by Wikipedia, is a wiki that anyone can edit” (About Diffen). Since it is like Wikipedia, I was forced to discard this …show more content…
First of all, the girls of Sparta had an official education (“Ancient Greece-Sparta”). During their teenage and early adult stage of their lives, “in” order “to attract mates, females engaged in athletic competitions, including javelin-throwing and wrestling, and also sang and danced competitively” (History.com Staff). When a female found a husband, she would cut her short before they were married (History.com Staff). Once married, they are granted, by Spartan law to have land. The only thing the woman had to watch over the family land. She did not have to chores because Spartan had a class of people called the Helots or the slaves that took care of the chores (History.com Staff). Since Spartan soldiers died and/or retired, the women of Sparta were needed to help repopulate the lost soldiers. The father of the wife that had more baby boys could be rewarded by the Spartan king (History.com Staff). In Ancient Greece, there were two, powerful, city-states, Sparta and Athens. They may have been the most powerful and well known city-states, but they were polar opposites. One of their major differences was their form of government. History.com states, “While Athens was trying Democracy as a form of government, its rival Sparta had two kings. One king might stay at home, while the other was away fighting battles” (“Sparta”). Athens had a government