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ATHENIAN SOCIAL STRUCTURE
CITIZENS:
 40 000 adult males born in Athens (over age 18)
 included : upper class (aristocrats), middle class, merchants, artisans and
craftspeople, farmers
WIVES AND CHILDREN OF CITIZENS
 no political rights
METICS
 foreign residents (all immigrants from other Greek city states and their
descendants)
 no political rights
 metic tax
SLAVES
 from “Barbarian countries
 prisoners of war, kidnapped and abandoned children, descendants of slaves
 no rights/property of owners (individuals or the state)
 well-treated (except in the mines)
SPARTAN SOCIAL STRUCTURE
SPARTIATES
 10 000 free citizens (adult males over 30 born in Sparta)
 dedicated to the state and military
 worked on the land or in trade
WIVES AND CHILDREN OF CITIZENS
 no legal or political rights
PERIOIKOI
 resident foreigners
 could work in industry and trade
 no political rights
 heavily taxed
HELOTS
 slaves ( original citizens of Lacedaemon who were conquered by the Spartans)
 ruled with an iron fist
 owned by the state
 outnumbered citizens 20 to 1
 constant threat of revolt