Sparta depended on slaves and helots (people from a nearby settlement who were forced to work.
Sparta did
Foreigners were know as the perioeci and they were belonged in the social class between the Spartiates and the Helots. They had a lot of freedom and they had the opportunity to become merchants and trade.
The spartiates
Ancient Greece was split into several cities, the main ones being Athens and Sparta. Each city had it's own government. In Athens for the first hundred years it was ruled by a king but soon the Athenians overthrew the kings and created democracy. The leading political figure was Pericles. The time during the democracy was called the golden age of Athens. Soon it's rival Sparta attacked and defeated Athens thus ending this age. the ancient Greeks truly believed in their gods. They had over 20 gods, the king of these gods being Zeus.
The helots were a serf class in Sparta. According to Thucydides they revolted four different times during the 5th century.
Athens Did.
Sparta did
Neither. Metics (resident aliens) were merchants/traders/tradesmen/academics. Sparta had serfs as a working class. Athens had its own people as a working class.
Athenians included its working class, Sparta had serfs whom it had conquered in the southern Peloponnese.
Athens had citizens as the upper class Sparta's upper class was called equals not citizens.
Foreigners were know as the perioeci and they were belonged in the social class between the Spartiates and the Helots. They had a lot of freedom and they had the opportunity to become merchants and trade.
Foreigners were know as the perioeci and they were belonged in the social class between the Spartiates and the Helots. They had a lot of freedom and they had the opportunity to become merchants and trade.
in my social studies class we have 5 city states, Corinth Athens Sparta Olympia and Megara.
Pericles believed that the power of Athens was in the demos, the free common people of Athens. That did not include foreigners, women, or slaves. At this time, the military of Athens was entirely lower class people, and Pericles wanted Athenian citizen to raise up to defend the state.
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The spartiates
The unpropertied class, foreigners, and slaves.