sparta at war 5TH CENTURY

citizens in spartan society

-live off the income of their land and could dedicate their time to training and warfare

-they were not professional soldiers

-they ate their daily meal with the men who made up their military unit

-when young men came of age they had to be selected by companies in order to become a full citizen

-both your father and mother had to be citizens to gain citizenship

perioci

-communities that governed themselves but recogized spartas over control

-these people were landowners, crfatsmen and traders

-no participiation in politics

helots

-enslaved people but greek speaking

-land assigned to spartan citizens but the native people worked the land for them (helots)

-they were obliged to hand over a proprtion or fixed amount of their produce to their spartan masters

-helots presented a danger to spartan society due to their size (perhaps seven to one)

-460 BC major slave revolt