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Essential Question: Compare and contrast the Athenian and Spartan government,
economy, education, and treatment of women and slaves.
Unit 2: Ancient Greece
Chapter: 27: Life in Two Cities: Athens and Sparta
Questions/Themes/Concepts Answers to questions, Themes, and Concepts
1. Why were Sparta
and Athens so
different?
2. When did Athens
become a
democracy?
3. Who were the
citizens of Athens?
4. What was the
Council of 500?
Questions/Themes/Concepts
5. What did the
Council of 500 do?
6. What was the
Assembly?
7. What is an
economy?
8. What did the
Athenians base their
economy on? Why?
9. What did Athens
trade?
10. Where would
Athenians go to buy
and sell goods?
11. According to
Athenians, what was
the purpose of
education?
12. Describe the
differences in
education between
boys and girls of
Athens.
Answers to questions, themes, concepts
Questions/Themes/Concepts
13. Describe the life of
an Athenian woman.
14. How did most slaves
of Athens become
slaves?
15. What were some of
the jobs the slaves
did in Athens?
16. What type of
government did
Sparta have?
17. Who made the
decisions in the
Spartan
government?
Answers to questions, themes, concepts
Questions/Themes/Concepts
18. Describe the Council
of Elders.
19. How does a person
become a member of
the Council of
Elders?
20. What was the job of
the Council of
Elders?
21. What did the
Assembly do and
who made up the
Assembly?
22. What was the
Spartan economy
based on?
23. What were helots
and what did they
do?
24. Why did Sparta not
encourage trade with
other cities?
25. What was the
purpose of the
Spartan education?
Answers to questions, themes, concepts
Questions/Themes/Concepts
26. What were some of
the training boys
received?
27. What was expected
of women in Sparta?
28. What rights did
Spartan women
have?
29. Describe how the
Spartan slaves were
treated.
Essential Question:
Compare and contrast the
Athenian and Spartan
government, economy,
education, and treatment of
women and slaves.
Answers to questions, themes, concepts