How Did Lycurgus's Rules To Run The Sparta Government

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Chapter 4 Two ancient cities follow diverse paths. 2,500 years ago the two cities of Greece prospered greatly. One of these was named Sparta. Sparta’s government developed quickly thanks to rules invented by a man named Lycurgus. In 600s B.C. Lycurgus wrote basic rules to run the Spartan government and a way of life; Lycurgus’s rules were approved by the god Apollo. The Spartans adapted to these rules. Spartans swore not to alter the constitution until his return and starved himself to death. The Spartans used Lycurgus’s rules for many centuries. Lycurgus’s system was run by the upper class. With two kings at the top, a council of twenty eight men, a board of five overseers, and an assembly of the warriors they were unstoppable. The Spartans conquered people that outnumbered them up to 20 times their size. To manage all these people they let some free with no political rights while the rest became Serfs. To oppress these people the Spartans formally went to war by declaration. The government was set-up for all males to become warriors when they grew. Baby boys were inspected at birth, if deemed unfit they were thrown into a ravine and forever gone. When they were twelve they were sent to a military camp of sorts where they were trained to become warriors. When they were twenty they joined an army squad whom…show more content…
This was hard because there were no documents containing the story of the war so he used the memories of the war veterans and what their children remembered of their stories. Herodotus wrote mainly to entertain the Greeks and in his book he included many anecdotes. Greek tragedies were soon invented to further explore humanity. These tragedies became a passion for the Greeks and each year they held a festival. At the festival thousands sat at a theater for ten hours a day for four days to watch theses
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