250,000 slaves lived in Sparta in 400 B.C.
no
400 BC was 2416 years before AD 2017.
It looks like Sparta was a city from around 900 BC or so until 192 BC.
11,00 bc
Sparta had taken over southern Peloponnesian Peninsula and so had a large serf population, even though its own people in Sparta itself were severely depleted by the wars of the previous 50 years.
Even counting its helots, Sparta's population did not come anywhere near Athens' quarter million.
no
Nope! Athens did.
Nooo! Athens did.
400 BC was 2416 years before AD 2017.
400 b.C.
It looks like Sparta was a city from around 900 BC or so until 192 BC.
For almost 30 years on and off. From 431 BC to 404 BC.
11,00 bc
Sparta had taken over southern Peloponnesian Peninsula and so had a large serf population, even though its own people in Sparta itself were severely depleted by the wars of the previous 50 years.
250
Sparta can actually be dated to the Stone Age. However, it became a city-state during the Bronze Age about the seventh century BC.