ATHENS + SPARTA
IS ATHENS BETTER THEN SPARTA?
ATHENS GOVERMENT
I think Athens had a good government. Athens had a democracy witch was a type of government where people made there own decisions. In the democracy they had a assembly, the assembly makes the laws and is only made up of free male's that are at least 18 years old. Athens also had a council of 500 they had to propose the laws that the assembly voted on. To be in the council of 500 there is a rule that you have to win the lottery. The finial thing that Athens had in there democracy was the generals, the generals command the army and the navy. They also were the judges in the court.
ATHENS ECONOMY
I think that Athens had a good Economy. One reason why I think they had a good economy was because they had trade, some of the things that they traded was olive oil, honey, pottery and other things like grain for bread, food for animals and wood for fires. The finial reason why I think they had a good economy was because they had a lot of tourists. Tourists helped the economy because the tourists spent lots of money by visiting temples and schools they also brought goods from foreign lands to trade, sell, and barter.
ATHENS VALUES
1.TEMPLES
2. RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT
3. ART
4. LEARNING
5. EDUCATION
6. SPORTS
7. OLYMPICS
8. DRAMA
HOW ATHENS TREATED WOMAN AND SLAVES.
I do not agree with how Athens treated women and slaves. One reason why I don't agree with how they treated woman was because woman did not have the rights that men had. Woman could not inherit there property if her husband died, they also were not aloud in the assembly and could not vote. Only a few woman could have jobs and only important woman.The finial reason why I don't agree with how Athens treated slaves is because slaves had to work underground in silver mines, but some slaves did get treated better then others those slaves farmed and did household jobs.
SPARTA'S GOVERMENT
I think Sparta had a good government. In their government they had an oligarchy. An oligarchy is a system of government where there was more than one ruler. They also had an Assembly. To be in the assembly you had to at least 30 years old. The Assembly voted on the laws and the laws became official. They also had a council of elders. The council of elders was made up of 30 men were at least 60 years old. They wrote the laws an prepared them to be voted on by the assembly. The final thing their government had were the ephors. The ephors have a great deal of power because they watched over the kings there were also only 5 ephors.
SPARTA'S ECONOMY
I think that Sparta's economy was pretty good. Sparta specialized there economy on farming and conquering people. One reason why I think they had a good economy was because they farmed, they farm to produce crops to feed there growing population. The finial reason why I think they had a good economy was because they conquered people and after Sparta conquered them they became a helot a helot is the same thing as a slave. I think that they treated there helot good because they were aloud to live in the house that they originally lived in, but they had to produce lots of food.
SPARTAS VALUES
1.STRONG MILITARY
2.FORCE
3.STRAENGHT
HOW SPARTA TREATED WOMEN AND SLAVES
I think that Sparta treated women and slaves a lot better then Athens. One reason why I think they treated women better is because women were equal to men and they treated them the same unlike Athens. The final reason why I think Sparta treated slaves better then Athens is because, once the slaves fought for Sparta they were let free.