a helot
A Spartan slave was called a helot. Helots were state-owned serfs required to work the land for their Spartan masters.
Helot
No, a helot is a greek and spartan slave
yes a helot is a slave it is a spartan term they used with there three main classes.
The Helots were serfs - bound to their land, providing a percentage of produce to the Spartan state - different from slaves who were owned outright and had no rights.
The armour, weapons, tools, and everything else used by the Spartan army was made by a slave class called helots.
Sparta's population was mostly slaves, and their economy depended on slave labor. A slave revolt would certainly be economically devastating, and there was a distinct chance that the slaves would win and overthrow the Spartan government, so obviously this was always something Sparta was worried about.
Spartan boys were trained to be warriors from an early age. This culminated in a test where they were tasked to kill a slave by hand to prove their manhood. At this point they were accepted into the Spartan army.
War with the Persians along with three decades of fighting with Athens, plagues, and slave revolts.
Becuase the life of the gladiator was similar to the life of a Spartan grim, tough,and they were often fought other slaves for their freedom. Many fights consisted of an animal and a slave or a heavily armed slave agaisnt a bare armed slave.
If you were a slave back in ancient Greece, you would prefer to be a slave in Athens. A Spartan slave would constantly be afraid for his life. Every year, the Spartans declared war on their slaves and they even had a 'special-ops' group called the Krypteia who were allowed to kill any slave they believed was plotting against the city. The killing of slaves was openly accepted in Sparta.
spartan boys leaned how to read and write but a majority of what they learned was training to be a solider.