No it is false Sparta didn't have many merchants because, they focused so much on military training. They couldn't catch up with the trading of the other city-states and countries.
No. Because the Sparta
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250,000 slaves lived in Sparta in 400 B.C.
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.
Sparta...people from Sparta were referred to as "Spartans"Sparta was the most well known because it and Athens were the two biggest city states. there were others that werent as importantAnother view:Sparta was a limited democracy. Unless its males had a say in political matters, they would not fight, so matters of importance were brought by the Council before the Assembly of adult male citizens for their decision.
YES there were many merchants
No. Because the Sparta
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Sparta was a rural society. The city was more like a collection of villages. It lived frugally on its produce rather than on trade.
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Sparta was an agricultural economy. The citizens lived a life of simplicity and military activity, so their main needs were met by the produce their serf population rendered to them. Their other needs were mainly met by the tradesmen and artisans in their own territory.
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.
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in many ways!!
they werent that many soldiers
The Space Merchants has 179 pages.
Merchants of Doubt has 355 pages.