Ancient Greece

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Climate/Geography

• Today, I had to wake up early to train for combat. I stepped outside into the dry air, to meet with the rest of the Spartans. Our obstacle for the day was to climb Mt. Taygetus, collect water from the Evrotas River, climb back up the mountain and make it home in 1 day.

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Government • Today we had a government

council meeting and we are the most stable government. We had two monarchy's and the council composed of two kings plus 28 nobles there are over sixty retired military veterans.

Warfare

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Cultural Life • Sparta was in many regards the opposite pole to Athens from

a cultural perspective. Lycurgus' training and rule offered the city a formalized system of mandatory military training, as well as a constitution and social structure which allowed all Spartans some form of equality. and militaristic . Lycurgus's precept required military service for nearly a person's entire life, and was excluded to the helots and the perieoki. Only the male spartiate were admitted into Lycurgus' training, where at the age of seven, a male child was taken from their mother, and until the age of 30 and possibly beyond were dedicated to their training and to their service to the state.