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helot (in ancient Sparta) HISTORY

Leibeigene(r) m

helot (in ancient Sparta) HISTORY

Helot m

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Some modern scholars advocate a reevaluation of ancient evidence about helots. en.wikipedia.org

Therefore, women were more preoccupied with maintaining their physical stature, bearing children, and supervising the helots who worked the land. en.wikipedia.org

Modification of "jus soli" has been criticized as contributing to economic inequality, the perpetuation of unfree labour from a helot underclass, and statelessness. en.wikipedia.org

There are known to have been some occasions that a helot with enough money was allowed to purchase their freedom from the state. en.wikipedia.org

The total population of helots at that time, including women, is estimated as 170,000 224,000. en.wikipedia.org

They were required to hand over a predetermined portion of their harvest (/ "apophor"), with the helots keeping the surplus. en.wikipedia.org

In the immediate aftermath, the helots saw an opportunity to rebel. en.wikipedia.org

Classical historiography recognizes that the helots comprised a large portion of these "mothakes". en.wikipedia.org

Those who did not emigrate were reduced socially to helots, or serfs. en.wikipedia.org

Nor does the text allow us to conclude that this was a failed uprising of helots, only that there was an attempt at escape. en.wikipedia.org

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