helot
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Helots fed these high-caste soldiers and serviced their every need; one source reports that each Spartan who went into battle against the Persians was attended by seven helots.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026
Without the helots, the Spartans could not support their military system as before, and their Peloponnesian League collapsed.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
Approximately 90% of the population of the area under Sparta’s control were helots, serfs descended from the population conquered by Sparta in the eighth century.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
In the critical days before the Russian blockade, he vowed: "We will defend ourselves with all our means against the attempt to make us slaves and helots."
From Time Magazine Archive
And suppose such the case, will it be gratifying to us to become the helots to this people?
From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) by Lever, Charles James
Vocabulary lists containing helot
Ancient Greece, Lessons 1–3
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Chapter 7: The Ancient Greeks
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Chapter 5
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