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Where would be a better place to live: Ancient Athens or Sparta?
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Selected claim, opposing its parent
Spartans lived in constant fear of a helot revolt. The helots were Peloponnesian Greeks who were enslaved under Spartan rule.
Pros
Cons
Pro claim 1
Helots
outnumbered
Spartans by a significant margin.
Pro claim 2, children below
Helots could organise and communicate more effectively than Athenian slaves, making a slave revolt more likely in Sparta than Athens.
Con claim 1, children below
Sparta instituted a number of measures to ensure such a revolt did not happen.