20 October, 2014
the ancient greeks
Wrestling, boxing, and military work or training were just a few of the things that the young boys and girls in Sparta had to be prepared for. For the boys, they would be forced to leave their house and live in barracks with other boys, hard at work training for the military. There, they spent their days working with swords and other weapons, and were given barely any food, and had little to sleep on. The girls also trained for wrestling and spear throwing, in a similar way to the boys. In Sparta, they believed that women would have strong and healthy children, if they themselves grew up strong and healthy. Training for these things could also lead to competing in the Olympics, which was held to honor Zeus.
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I think it's cruel when they took the boys to barracks and made them fight. I think it's cool though when you know how to use all those weapons and that you can fight very well so you can you protect yourself. One bad thing about it is that if all those people are focused on military training then they don't focus on intelligence and get stupid. Do you think it's good or bad that all these people had to do military training?
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