video clip study guide -- Young Spartan Men & Women
NAME: ___________________________ PERIOD: ___
1. How did teenage Spartan boys, after training from age 7 to learn combat skills, practice those skills at night as teenagers?
2. Spartan marriages were arranged, but despite that there was a very strange ritual involved in the "marriage ceremony" for young Spartan men and women. What was this very strange ritual?
3. Married Spartans spent very little time together, since family relationships were not important to the Spartans. What was the sole purpose of marriage?
4. Spartans were buried without any name on the gravestone unless they accomplished a specific task in their lifetime.
a) What was the task for a man?
b) What was the task for a woman?
5. What were the three goals of Spartan men?
6. Why didn't the Spartans fight very often, even though they had the best army in the world?
7. Why after centuries of fighting rarely, why do the Spartans suddenly become more warlike?
8. What outside threat to the Spartans arose at this point in time?
1. How did teenage Spartan boys, after training from age 7 to learn combat skills, practice those skills at night as teenagers?
2. Spartan marriages were arranged, but despite that there was a very strange ritual involved in the "marriage ceremony" for young Spartan men and women. What was this very strange ritual?
3. Married Spartans spent very little time together, since family relationships were not important to the Spartans. What was the sole purpose of marriage?
4. Spartans were buried without any name on the gravestone unless they accomplished a specific task in their lifetime.
a) What was the task for a man?
b) What was the task for a woman?
5. What were the three goals of Spartan men?
6. Why didn't the Spartans fight very often, even though they had the best army in the world?
7. Why after centuries of fighting rarely, why do the Spartans suddenly become more warlike?
8. What outside threat to the Spartans arose at this point in time?