HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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Question
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Sparta
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Athens
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Crete
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Macadonia
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Detailed explanation-1: -Spartan boys were trained to be soldiers from their youth. They were raised by their mothers until the age of seven and then they would enter a military school called the Agoge. At the Agoge the boys were trained how to fight, but also learned how to read and write. The Agoge was a tough school.
Detailed explanation-2: -Sparta was a warrior society in ancient Greece that reached the height of its power after defeating rival city-state Athens in the Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.).
Detailed explanation-3: -At the age of 7, Spartan boys were removed from their parents’ homes and began the “agoge, ‘’ a state-sponsored training regimen designed to mold them into skilled warriors and moral citizens.
Detailed explanation-4: -All citizens in ancient Greece were warriors, but the Spartans were the best warriors in all of Greece. The city-state of Sparta was basically a well-trained army.