The Helots (they were the original inhabitants of the area and after the Dorians took control over the territory they were kept as slaves).
the spartans
It was the women
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.
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.
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.
Sparta depended on slaves and helots (people from a nearby settlement who were forced to work.
i think it is the peasants like in Egypt's social classes.
if you mean is a helot a spartaN, no. The Spartans weren't the people of Sparta, they were the high class of sparta, although the term is often improperly used to describe all of the people of Sparta
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Sparta did
Athens had citizens as the upper class Sparta's upper class was called equals not citizens.
The lowest class of people in ancient Egypt were slaves.