Infiataide Flashcards
Dawn of Settlement
Farming/agriculture/cultivation agrarian ideology became source of life & reason for prosperity
Laid foundation for civilization – social classes, religious figures, militaries, politicians, thinkers, etc.
As populations grew,
civilizations needed more space, food, farmland for self-sufficiency & dominance
As population grew it led too
Led to acts of violence & war – as civilizations expanded, others destroyed & enslaved by victors
Hesiod
- 1st connected cultivation, gender, “race,” & extinction
- Wrote about sturdy farmer, devious woman, deluded trader
*agrarian lifestyle created prejudice against trade, travel, & women
An agrarian society,
-or agricultural society, is any community whose economy is based on producing and maintaining crops and farmland.
Ancient Sparta
Aggressive, war-oriented nation-state
-centered on loyalty to state & military service
Spartan men devoted
lives to military service, lived communally
Spartan boys entered
Agoge - sponsored education, military training & socialization program
—-Emphasized obedience, endurance, courage & self-control
age 7
Divided into 3 main groups:
Spartans/Spartiates (full citizens); Helots (serfs/slaves); Perioeci (not slaves or citizens)
Helots
captured/enslaved by Spartans, worked as farmers/laborers
—- Helots outnumbered Spartans, frequently treated brutally,
—-Helots were originally free Greeks that the Spartans had defeated in battle, and subsequently enslaved.
—-manual labor, wet nurses
—–partans legally allowed to kill Helots for any number of reasons – too small, too fit,
Krypteia:
Rite of passage for young boys becoming soldiers – a group would hunt down, sneak up on, & brutally murder a helot as proof of readiness for military
Only ___Spartans were full citizens
10,000
Ranking
Spartains ->Inferiors-> Helots
Spartians –> general population
Inferiors–> Lost of citizenship wore special clothes and were avoided
Helots–>Basically slaves
Peloponnesian War
- 27-year war b/w Athens & Sparta
Sparta won, but other victims stemmed from fighting
The Melian Dialogue”
Athens targeted Melos for not choosing a side in the war
* Athens knew Melians “weak” & “inferior” compared to them
* Melos refused Athens’ offer to ally w/ them & pay tribute
* Athens invaded island, forced Melians to surrender
* Killed 1,500 Melian men, sold women & children into slavery