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> Unless it's explicitly about slaves and outcasts, it's about the at most 10% of the society that wasn't. This is absolutely not true. Pretty much no other so
by brazzy 5y ago
> Unless it's explicitly about slaves and outcasts, it's about the at most 10% of the society that wasn't.
This is absolutely not true. Pretty much no other society in history actually held more than 80% of the population enslaved like Sparta did. Rome certainly never did, nor did the other Greek states of the era.
- int_19h 5y agoIt should also be noted that in Sparta, the Spartan class was outright prohibited from any productive labor.