answersLogoWhite

0

What was The lowest class of citizens in Sparta was?

Updated: 11/4/2021
User Avatar

Wiki User

7y ago

Best Answer

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.

User Avatar

Isac Roob

Lvl 10
2y ago
This answer is:
User Avatar

Add your answer:

Earn +20 pts
Q: What was The lowest class of citizens in Sparta was?
Write your answer...
Submit
Still have questions?
magnify glass
imp
Related questions

Which had citizens as the upper class between Sparta and Athens?

Athens had citizens as the upper class Sparta's upper class was called equals not citizens.


The lowest class of citizens in Sparta was?

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.


Were plebians upper-class citizens?

No they were the lowest class citizens.


Did the Sparta have citizens as the upper class?

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.


Why do you think they lived in Athens and not in 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.


What is an aerarian?

An aerarian is another word for an aerarius - a member of the lowest class of citizens in Ancient Rome.


Is it in Sparta or in Athens that only men could be citizens of a polis?

in Sparta were only free men citizens?


What was the lowest class of people in Sparta?

The Helots (they were the original inhabitants of the area and after the Dorians took control over the territory they were kept as slaves).


What controlled citizens of Sparta?

An assembly of the Spartan citizens.


Men and women were considered citizens in Sparta?

that's what I want to know


What were the social classes of ancient Sparta?

The rich male citizens, the ordinary male citizens with subsistence farms, the non-propertied class, resident aliens, women, slaves.


Is Sparta a direct or representative democracy?

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.