HIST 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Apella, Gerousia, Great Rhetra

• School: McGill University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 205
• Professor: Alexander Mc Auley

Document Summary

Sparta and athens: divergent trajectories in polis development. Located in a rich agricultural valley, has a year round river. Unusual for a greek city state as its not on the sea. As a result sparta does not rely on trade - it"s an agricultural community. 775/750 bc the sparta homeland experiences the same growing population as the rest of the greek world. They don"t found colonies (only one - taras, southern italy, 706 bc) The largest territorial polis - they take land around them to supply the land their need for spartan citizens. Homoioi - the equals, the spartiates, the spartans. When sparta conquered people, they became the perioikoi (the living around people) who were not spartan citizen. They lived in self governing communities under spartan authority. Perioikoi could trade and spartans could not. Perioikoi were the middlemen in any trade that. 750-100 bc the spartans continues to conquer people around them.