| 21. | Also present were the 400 Thebans and probably the helots who had accompanied the Spartans.
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| 22. | The earthquake sparked a revolt of the helots, the slave class of Spartan society.
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| 23. | The helots'labor allowed the Spartans to become a " full-time " army.
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| 24. | Troublesome helots could be summarily executed.
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| 25. | Each Spartiate male was assigned a plot of land, with the helots that worked it.
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| 26. | It was that helot revolt which would eventually bring on the crisis that precipitated the war.
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| 27. | By the winter of late 370 BC, King Messenia where the helots had already rebelled.
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| 28. | Helots were Messenian Wars by the state and assigned to families where they were forced to stay.
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| 29. | Plutarch indicates that the Crypteia and other poor treatments of the helots were instituted after this revolt.
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| 30. | The mothakes were primarily either offspring of Spartiate fathers and helot mothers or children of impoverished Spartiates.
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