Spartan
Leonidas of Sparta a heroic king
This book is called king Leonidas of sparta a heroic king, the Author is Helena P. it’s about how king Leonidas led the 300 Spartans to war and how they train their sons to be strong and become a Spartan. From the moment of a Spartan girl or a boy came into the world, the military and the city state were the center of every Spartan citizen’s life. Both male and female babies were determined by city state if they were strong enough to be Spartan citizens. If the infants were too week or sick, they were abandoned in the country side to die. This was a very common thing in the Greek world because Sparta made it an official government policy. When a male Spartan was at the age of seven, he was taken from his mother and sent to live in special military barracks for twenty three years. In these barracks they were taught discipline, athletics, survival skills, hunting, weapons training and how to endure the pain. At the age of twenty in the barracks, the male Spartans become soldiers for the state. Xerxes was a Persian emperor who ruled many places such as Greece , he wanted to concur that land because the Athenian burned down the city of Sardis that was the major city in Persia. The Athenians were the people who lived in the Greek city of Athens. Xerxes was known to slaves and killing lots of innocent men and women. When xerxes tried to concur Greece, king Leonidas was very furious when a Persian messenger told him that to surrender or we will fight, the king was known to never surrender so he went to war with the Persians. They were prepared to fight to the death this was a suicide war for the Greeks but that didn’t stop them. The Spartans didn’t want Xerxes to take their people and slave them or kill them.
The Spartans where like a delta squad of the accent times, they made a good team by the way they worked together. They worked as a shield so they can get maximum protection when they go to
This book is called king Leonidas of sparta a heroic king, the Author is Helena P. it’s about how king Leonidas led the 300 Spartans to war and how they train their sons to be strong and become a Spartan. From the moment of a Spartan girl or a boy came into the world, the military and the city state were the center of every Spartan citizen’s life. Both male and female babies were determined by city state if they were strong enough to be Spartan citizens. If the infants were too week or sick, they were abandoned in the country side to die. This was a very common thing in the Greek world because Sparta made it an official government policy. When a male Spartan was at the age of seven, he was taken from his mother and sent to live in special military barracks for twenty three years. In these barracks they were taught discipline, athletics, survival skills, hunting, weapons training and how to endure the pain. At the age of twenty in the barracks, the male Spartans become soldiers for the state. Xerxes was a Persian emperor who ruled many places such as Greece , he wanted to concur that land because the Athenian burned down the city of Sardis that was the major city in Persia. The Athenians were the people who lived in the Greek city of Athens. Xerxes was known to slaves and killing lots of innocent men and women. When xerxes tried to concur Greece, king Leonidas was very furious when a Persian messenger told him that to surrender or we will fight, the king was known to never surrender so he went to war with the Persians. They were prepared to fight to the death this was a suicide war for the Greeks but that didn’t stop them. The Spartans didn’t want Xerxes to take their people and slave them or kill them.
The Spartans where like a delta squad of the accent times, they made a good team by the way they worked together. They worked as a shield so they can get maximum protection when they go to