HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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Question
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What was a woman’s most important role in Spartan society?
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To educate her children to be good citizens.
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To stay at home and care for her family
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To produce and raise strong boys to be soldiers
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To participate in the government of the city-state.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Bearing and raising children was considered the most important role for women in Spartan society; equal to male warriors in the Spartan army. Spartan women were encouraged to produce many children, preferably male, to increase Sparta’s military population. They took pride in having borne and raised brave warriors.
Detailed explanation-2: -While boys prepared to fight foreign armies, girls tended to domestic duties. Girls would spend part of the day learning to spin and weave. A teenage girl in Sparta could expect her father or another male to arrange her marriage. Spartan girls usually married in their late teens.
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