Spartan society at the battle of LeuctraName of the two royal families that governed ancient Sparta.Agiads and Eurypontids.What is meant by the term Ephorus?Ephorus: (Greek ephoran, "a supervise”),The 'Ephors' were part of the ancient Spartan constitution. The Ephors were an order of five high magistrates elected by the people to represent the popular will; they were replaced on an annual basis by vote to prevent a person from becoming power hungry or powerful. Describe the roles of the helots and Perioikoi in ancient Sparta. Despite common belief, Sparta was not simply a horde of strong, ferocious, primitive warriors living on the Laconian plain, on the right bank of the Eurotas River that was the general impression, there was much more to the civilization than just the training system and the Helots and Perioikoi were two of the most vital aspects of the Spartan empire on which agriculture and the economy were based. The Helots were the original residents of the Laconian Plain, the term Helots often means "prisoner of war" and this is a good representation of what the Helots were prisoners or slaves. Owned by the state, they were given land owned by individual Spartans, worked, lived, and profited from the agricultural products derived from the land, although half of the harvest was given directly to the landowner. The helots produced all the food for the people of Sparta and worked tirelessly to maintain the Spartiate lifestyle. Tyrtaeus compared the helots to "donkeys exhausted under great loads: under the painful necessity of bringing to their masters half the fruits produced by their plowed land". The tasks of the helots however were generally agricultural, when the Spartans had... middle of paper... military purpose, the women of Sparta would also have been influenced by the military lifestyle almost as much as the young men. From childhood they were trained to raise a family, they were taught to be midwives, learning the correct way to teach the future young people of Sparta and stay fit to produce suitable children. Spartan women unlike Athenian females were encouraged to exercise and become as fit as possible, Lykourgos had expressed his belief in a correlation between the physical fitness of the parents and the physical fitness of the child. Xenophon dictates these beliefs: “First, therefore, he prescribed physical training for the female sex no less than for the males; then, as for men, he organized running and strength competitions for women too, thinking that if both parents were strong their children would be more robust”