This is Sparta!
Please watch the above video (it is about ten minutes). If you are having problems watching the embedded video above--I have included the link here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzXAm-4WGuM
ANCIENT GREECE EXTRA CREDIT BLOG POST!
You will now explain two things: 1) Please identify ONE new Spartan practice that you learned about that we have not read about/discussed in class 2) What Spartan practice you found most interesting and why! So, in order to get EXTRA CREDIT you must:
1) Identify ONE new Spartan practice that you learned about from the video that we have not read about/discussed in class
2) Identify and explain what Spartan practice you found most interesting and why!
2) Identify and explain what Spartan practice you found most interesting and why!
4) Make sure that NO ONE ELSE has written about your topics already! (Everyone has to write about a different topic to get the points!)
Follow these directions to get the complete points:
A. Go to the comment section of this post.
B. Use proper grammar, spelling, etc.
C. Make sure that it is class appropriate--keep it clean!
D. Make sure you go through the whole word verification process (typing the misshapen word).
E. If your comment/choice does not get posted in a timely fashion, or gets posted and then disappears, see me in class ASAP so we can figure out what went wrong!
DUE: Thursday 11/21/13!
DUE: Wednesday 10/2
27 comments:
1. Part of how Sparta got a lot of its power is from taking over the Myceneans for over 4 centuries. They were held captive and made Helots (slaves).
2. I thought it was interesting that the Spartans tended to attack people who were very similar to them! It makes me wonder if that meant that they didn't like characteristics about themselves, but didn't want to say it?
Kelsey K.
1. How Sparta would attack other city states like itself and try to justify their conquests by treating the conquered people as others and making them slaves.
2. I thought it was interesting that the Spartans would every year claim official war on the Mycenaeans.
Divya D.
1. Part of how Sparta got lots of his power was using public humiliation as apart of torturing their captured slaves.
2. I thought the most interesting fact was that you couldn't live with your wife when you first got married which over time helped to increase the birth rate to create healthy boys to serve in the army.
Mary C.
1. How Sparta kept on gaining land. They were never content with what they had. They had to have it all.
2. I thought the most interesting thing was how that in order for you to be a citizen, you mother and father had to be a citizen.
1. How there was a ratio 10:1 of Helots to Spartans. Those Helots used to be Mycenaeans whose land was conquered, so we can assume the Spartans conquered a LOT of land.
2. It was interesting how all the Spartans saw themselves as descendants of the great warrior Heracles.
Emily G.
1.Sparta was always trying to get something that they didn't have, like new fertile land.
2.When the boys were sent to train at the age of 7, they would never return.
Nicole R
1. How if the Spartans believed in a violent oppression of there enemies
2.I found that the Spartans never build walls most interesting because walls are a key part in defense and that they just thought that they could repel any attack and survive walls
Alec H.
1. A Spartan practice that I learned was when little boys were sent to military training, they never returned!
2. The most interesting fact I found was not only did the Helots outnumber the Spartans, but by a ratio of 10:1!
Nick J.
1. Spartans actually declared war yearly against the recolonizing Mycenaeans.
2. Interestingly enough, Spartan men were only allowed to see their wives at night until they were 30.
Melanie C.
1. How Sparta meant "like a diamond".
2.What I found most interesting was how well placed the city of Sparta was to be put in between two mountain ranges where it is hard for invaders to get to.
Timmy M.
1) Mycenaeans where Sparta's conquered people and they hated each other (Sparta and Mycenaeans) because they where so much alike.
2) I thought it was interesting that when a boy turned 7 he never returned back to his family and i think this is interesting because you don't get to grow up with "protection" of your family and your brought up in a very well-mannered way and everyone expect's you to have a high maturity level at such a young age.
Tig N.
1).One new Spartan practice was that a married man could not live with his wife until the age of thirty, and that sick children were gotten rid of.
2).I thought it was interesting that it was a was a privilege to fight in the spartan army.
Jack B.
1. How Sparta soldiers had to endure pain and hardship. How they went to school from the age of 7 until the age of 18.
2. I thought that a very interesting part of the Sparta culture was the role that their women played in society.
Chase M.
1: Their was ten times as many helots as there was spartans.
2: What i though was most interesting was how the sparatns were so confident that they did not build walls around their city.
-Dominic C
1) How the Spartans conquered city-states like theirs but treated the people different even though they were basically the same.
2) What I thought was interesting was Spartans were confident enough to not build a wall and that they could repel anyone.
Zack F.
1) How the Spartans conquered city-states like theirs but treated the people different even though they were basically the same.
2) What I thought was interesting was that Sparta's real name was Lacidoma.
Zack F.
1) How only the free/true Spartans were the only ones that could fight in the military.
2) I thought it was interesting that the Spartans believed that they didn't need walls because nobody could conquer them and that they could over anyone that tried.
Jackson H.
1. A new practice is how Sparta was very greedy and always wanted more. Like how they took over the largest greek city-state, Messenia, for more land.
2. I found it interesting how Sparta produced poems and songs.
Karla A.
1. They learned to read and write for purely practical reasons.
2. I found it interesting that you had to have a Spartan mother and father to be a pure Spartan.
-Madi A
1. Although their were major differences in the wealth of spartans, they were still treated with equality
2. It was interesting that the helots outnumbered the greeks 10:1
Curt N.
How they controlled birth rate to maximize the strong healthy children.
I thought the most interesting was that they always wanted more land and never seemed happy with what they had.
Chris K.
1.Sparta's official name was Lakadaimeran, and Sparta itself was a secondary name
2.They attacked the Messiaens, who were also Greek, much like how the Spartans attacked Athens
Richard K
1) How Sparta had been so alike to the Doreans that they spoke the same language and everything, they started treating them poorly because it was the only way to decipher them.
2) I thought the most interesting how the Spartans thought that the descendants of the gods had been wiped out by the Mycenaeans.
Frankie M.
1. That you were only allowed to see your wife for some random visits at night after you got married.
2. I thought it was most interesting that people(some Spartans but mostly Athenians)would go and pick up the abandoned and exposed sick/weak children. The Spartans made it an official practice.
Dominic M.
1. Sparta got a lot of its power from the immigrants that moved there originally for its beauty but then were forced into slavery like helots.
2. I found it interesting that the helots didn't overthrow the Spartans. Really, this reminds me of the Pixar movie "A Bug's Life." The helots (ants)could have easily overthrown the spartans (Grasshoppers), but they never did because the spartans(grasshoppers) struck fear into their hearts. They did so because they knew if the helots (ants) rebelled, that the spartans (grasshoppers) would get beaten easily. The ants in "A Bugs Life" realized this and got rid of the grasshoppers but the helots didnt and kept getting killed despite favorable odds.
The one using "A Bugs Life" was me.
Blaise M.
1. Part of how they could control births.
2. I thought the most interesting fact was when boys left at 7 they never came back at all.
Taylor G.
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