video clip study guide -- Young Spartans (master)
1. How did teenage Spartan boys, after training from age 7 to learn combat skills, practice those skills at night as teenagers?
hunting and killing helots
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?
man would "kidnap" the bride as the marriage "ceremony"
3. Married Spartans spent very little time together, since family relationships were not important to the Spartans. What was the sole purpose of marriage?
produce children, especially boys
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? die in battle
b) What was the task for a woman? die in childbirth
5. What were the three goals of Spartan men?
* train for phalanx
* control the Helot population
* if necessary wage war
6. Why didn't the Spartans fight very often, even though they had the best army in the world?
* reputation of the Spartan army made war rare
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?
hunting and killing helots
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?
man would "kidnap" the bride as the marriage "ceremony"
3. Married Spartans spent very little time together, since family relationships were not important to the Spartans. What was the sole purpose of marriage?
produce children, especially boys
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? die in battle
b) What was the task for a woman? die in childbirth
5. What were the three goals of Spartan men?
* train for phalanx
* control the Helot population
* if necessary wage war
6. Why didn't the Spartans fight very often, even though they had the best army in the world?
* reputation of the Spartan army made war rare
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?