Athens had citizens as the upper class Sparta's upper class was called equals not citizens.
Athens Did.
Sparta did
Athenians included its working class, Sparta had serfs whom it had conquered in the southern Peloponnese.
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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Sparta depended on slaves and helots (people from a nearby settlement who were forced to work.
All Spartan male adults were citizens with equal rights. The Spartan territory had other peoples - the perioeci who lived in the countryside as landowners but were not Spartan citizens and the serfs who rendered half their produce to Sparta.
Sparta became temporarily the dominant power in mainland Greece. However the war had cost them a substantial loss of their citizens who made up the warrior class, and after a war with Thebes over 30 years later, their military strength had dwindled to a level where it ceased to be a major player in Greek affairs.
in my social studies class we have 5 city states, Corinth Athens Sparta Olympia and Megara.
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.
Sparta was more isolated than Athens was. Sparta was located on a plain between the mountains and the sea in the part of Greece, which is the Peloponnesus (look it up). Spartans were usually suspicious of outsiders and their ideas. Geography had affected development in Sparta by making Spartans grow what they needed or would often take what they needed from their neighbors. Spartans valued strength and simplicity while Athens had boasted about their art and culture.