The citizens were all Spartiates. The other classes were the perioci who were not spartans, but free men living in the countryside, and the lowest class were helots, who were serfs bound to the land, providing half their produce to the Spartan state.
Athens had citizens as the upper class Sparta's upper class was called equals not citizens.
The citizens were all Spartiates. The other classes were the perioci who were not spartans, but free men living in the countryside, and the lowest class were helots, who were serfs bound to the land, providing half their produce to the Spartan state.
No they were the lowest class citizens.
All Spartan male adults were citizens with equal rights. The Spartan territory had other peoples - the perioeci who lived in the countryside as landowners but were not Spartan citizens and the serfs who rendered half their produce to Sparta.
Who is they. The citizens of Sparta lived in Sparta. The citizens of Athens lived in Athns. Each preferred their own city, which is why they were citizens of that city.
An aerarian is another word for an aerarius - a member of the lowest class of citizens in Ancient Rome.
in Sparta were only free men citizens?
The Helots (they were the original inhabitants of the area and after the Dorians took control over the territory they were kept as slaves).
An assembly of the Spartan citizens.
that's what I want to know
The rich male citizens, the ordinary male citizens with subsistence farms, the non-propertied class, resident aliens, women, slaves.
Neither. Sparta was an oligarchy where nobles of a certain rank had direct power of the citizens and non-citizens (helots) in Sparta. Citizens who were not from these noble families and non-citizens had no power to promote their views.You are likely thinking of Athens which was a direct democracy.