#like all the societies of ancient greece featured slavery but sparta was the only 1 where the enslaved outnumbered the free
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#i love a good dragging of sparta#of all the ancient greeks they were probably the worst#like all the societies of ancient greece featured slavery but sparta was the only 1 where the enslaved outnumbered the free#and imo the need to keep slave rebellions in check was why every male citizen was a trained soldier#also i feel like in this day in age a lot of ppl hear citizen and think 'every member (or at least 80-90%) of the pop in a given society'#u really have to look at citizen as a legal/political class when ur looking at ancient times#(and tbh u also need to do that in modern societies)#(like a lot the US economy is powered by undocumented immigrants and prisoners)#(and u have places like dubai where almost 90% of the pop is migrant workers)#and like i know that prisoners in the us r still citizens but they have such few rights they lowkey become citizens in name only
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