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.
Athens Did.
Sparta did
Sparta depended on slaves and helots (people from a nearby settlement who were forced to work.
Athenians included its working class, Sparta had serfs whom it had conquered in the southern Peloponnese.
Athens had citizens as the upper class Sparta's upper class was called equals not citizens.
Foreigners were know as the perioeci and they were belonged in the social class between the Spartiates and the Helots. They had a lot of freedom and they had the opportunity to become merchants and trade.
Foreigners were know as the perioeci and they were belonged in the social class between the Spartiates and the Helots. They had a lot of freedom and they had the opportunity to become merchants and trade.
in my social studies class we have 5 city states, Corinth Athens Sparta Olympia and Megara.
Pericles believed that the power of Athens was in the demos, the free common people of Athens. That did not include foreigners, women, or slaves. At this time, the military of Athens was entirely lower class people, and Pericles wanted Athenian citizen to raise up to defend the state.
that's what I want to know
The spartiates
The unpropertied class, foreigners, and slaves.