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Sparta is known for little other than their military prowess, which was a necessity for managing their much larger slave population.

Athens had a rather strange system of slavery. The majority of slaves, owned by State, earned wages and worked and lived unattended. It was much more similar to indentured-servitude.

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My point was that Sparta was far more dependent on slave labour for its existence than either Rome or Athens.