Sparta

Today in Honor's Western Civilization we read pages 128-133 in our textbooks and took notes on the pages and then continued on the Google Slides presentation. While reading the pages I found it very interesting on how the Spartan Society was ran. Instead of being a democracy like the rest of Greece, they decided to be whats called a military state meaning their military was their government. Because of this military state title they had one of the strongest militarys ever. In the Spartan society you were forced to leave the house as 7 year old boy and were sent to army barracks where you trained and learned how to fight all the way up until you were 30. Once you were 30 you would join the fight in their formation known as phalanx. Phalanx is when you have a group of foot soldiers holding their long spears in front of them and once that line was killed the next line would move in. You were expected to fight in the army until you were 60 years old. Even the woman in Sparta lived hardy lives where they would practice fighting and tell their husbands to love Sparta more than them. Sparta was so dedicated to fighting that in the Persian Wars when Greece retreated Sparta's 3,000 soldiers stayed back to defend Greece and all died in trying. After reading about this the bell rang and ended class.