Athenians included its working class, Sparta had serfs whom it had conquered in the southern Peloponnese.
Another name for the working class is blue collar workers. Working folk, rank and file, and working stiffs are also other names of the working class.
In ancient Greece, rulers were typically not from the working class; they often belonged to the aristocracy or wealthy elite. City-states like Athens had a system of democracy, but political power was largely held by landowning citizens, while the working class, including laborers and farmers, had limited influence on governance. In some instances, popular leaders emerged from lower classes, but they still needed support from the elite to gain and maintain power.
Working Class
Sans-culottes was a radical working class of men and women.
Burgoisies The well-to-do and the poor (Apex)
Athens Did.
Sparta did
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.
Athens had citizens as the upper class Sparta's upper class was called equals not citizens.
in my social studies class we have 5 city states, Corinth Athens Sparta Olympia and Megara.
In Sparta, the working class primarily consisted of the helots, who were subjugated populations primarily from Messenia, while foreign workers, known as "metics," were less prominent in Spartan society. In contrast, Athens had a significant population of metics, who were free foreigners living in the city and engaged in various professions, contributing to the economy. These metics often faced legal restrictions and were required to pay taxes, but they played a crucial role in Athenian trade and craftsmanship. Thus, while both city-states had forms of foreign labor, their roles and status differed markedly.
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The spartiates
Middle class people in ancient Athens were called metics
the spartans
It was the women