The Spartan Caste System

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The Spartan Caste System setup are the Helots who are slaves and laborers. The Perioeci who were neither slaves nor full citizens. The Spartriates were citizens and warriors. They are the cause of Sparta's fall because they didn't change the government and always being outnumbered. The government didn't change like the rest of the Greek city- states( McArver). The Spartriates were very arrogant because helots still has the ability to fight because they went to war with the Spartriates about four times and gave them trouble. If this is a warrior society then they should have given the helots more freedom so they can fight to save their city- state Sparta. Maybe Alaric would never have burned their city to the ground.
There are three groups of people, Spartriates, Helots, and Periokoi. The Spartriates were the warrior class and where they are to become full citzens. They are allowed to go to agōgē. An agōgē is a school for full citizen families for training their children. They learned stealth, loyalty to the Spartan group, military training, hunting, dancing, singing, and social speaking. Agōgē meant leading or guidance. Historians say that it might have caused the Second Messenian War because they would teach the boys to protect against helot rebellion. Spartriates were all equal because whether they were rich or poor the women wore the same woolen dress and men would wear the same woolen shirt. Spartriates would banish fat people because they were not strong and they were not going to create strong children. The name of the helots isn't really known to theory, but it is thought to come from Helos or even from a Greek word that means captured. The Helots were Messenian that were conquered during the first Messenian War. Helots w...

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