Helots.
The main problem in Sparta was that the helots, or slaves would often rebel and invading countries would often arm the helots who outnumbered the Spartans 4 to 1
The helots were a serf class in Sparta. According to Thucydides they revolted four different times during the 5th century.
Laconia
Sparta depended on slaves and helots (people from a nearby settlement who were forced to work.
Sparta
The Helots were not Spartan citizens ; they were essentially slaves .
the Helots
Helots.
The Helots were a subjugated population in Laconia and Messenia, a territory controlled by Sparta
Spartans needed to be able to keep helots at bay
Slaves or enslaved people in Sparta were called helots.
helots
The main problem in Sparta was that the helots, or slaves would often rebel and invading countries would often arm the helots who outnumbered the Spartans 4 to 1
Helots were serfs - that is they were bound to their plot of land, and to deliver part of its produce to the owner, the city-state of Sparta.
Sparta captred it's niegboring city-staes and enslaved the people. They called their slaves helots and they fear that the helots would rebel and so they trained boys for the military in case the helots did rebel.
sparta was always at war because they feared that the Helots would rebel