Question

HELP ASAP FOR 50 POINTS!! Can someone answer these questions?

1) Describe government in Sparta.
2) Use the terms polytheism, sacrifices, temples and festivals to write four sentences about the religious beliefs of the Greeks.
3) Write one to two sentences about EACH of these Greek thinkers: Euclid, Ptolemy, Socrates, and Draco.
4) Consider how technology plays a part in war. Finishes each of the sentences below.

Athens led Greece in the Persian Wars because …

Sparta won the Peloponnesian War because ….
5) Describe the economy of Sparta.
6) What are the similarities between the United States government and democracy in Athens?
7) Which city-state would you prefer to live in and why? Give at least 3 reasons to support your answer.
Thank you to anyone that answers.

Answer 1

3.

Euclid: Euclid is a Greek mathematician, he lived during the Hellenistic Age. He wrote a book about geometry that many people still study today.

Ptolemy: Ptolemy blended the religions of Greece and Egypt into a form that appealed to many people. He ruled after Alexander’s death, and made a world famous library called the Library of Alexandria.

Socrates: Socrates was a philosopher, he taught by using questions. He was put on trial when he was seventy years old. He was accused of corrupting the city’s youth and disrespecting the gods.

Draco: Draco wrote the first clear set of laws in effort to stop the fighting between aristocratic families. He was an Athenian lawmaker who introduced the first written code of law in Ancient Greece.

Sparta won the Peloponnesian War because the Athenians were trapped inside their own walls and there was no cleanliness. A plague struck the city, and within two years one-third of the Athenian population had died.

5. Only Spartan men could become citizens. Women were allowed to own property, and could inherit land from their ancestors. Unhealthy children were killed at birth, boys who survived to the age of seven entered military training and lived in barracks.

6.

Athens had 30 years as the minimum age to be an Archon, while the United States has set the minimum age of 35 to be president.

The Council of 500 has the same number of representatives for each of the ten tribes, while the United States has two people to represent each state.

Athens and the United States use judges and juries. Athens had over 200 jurors per case, while the U.S. has 12.

Answer 2

1) Spartan political system was a combination of monarchy (kings), oligarchy (Gerousia) and democracy (ephoroi, ephors). Oligarchy– Sparta always had two kings, the state was ruled by two hereditary kings of the Agiad and Eurypontid families (probably the two gens had great merits in the conquest of Laconia)

2) In the ancient Greek world, religion was personal, direct, and present in all areas of life. With formal rituals which included animal sacrifices and libations, myths to explain the origins of mankind and give the gods a human face, temples which dominated the urban landscape, city festivals and national sporting and artistic competitions, religion was never far from the mind of an ancient Greek. Whilst the individual may have made up their own mind on the degree of their religious belief and some may have been completely sceptical, certain fundamentals must have been sufficiently widespread in order for Greek government and society to function: the gods existed, they could influence human affairs, and they welcomed and responded to acts of piety and worship.


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