The serfs of this warlike city-state were called Helots
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helot | Greek slave | Britannica.com  A state-owned serf of the ancient Spartans. ... The helots were in a sense state slaves, bound to the soil and assigned to individual Spartans to ... The Metropolis (cathedral) dedicated to St. Demetrios at Mistra, ruined Byzantine city ... that is closely related to Frisian, German, and Dutch (in Belgium called Flemish) languages.
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Helots - Wikipedia  The helots were a subjugated population group that formed the main population of Laconia and ... Spartan army  Other Greek city-states  Law Portal ... the first slaves of the Lacedaemonian state, and were the first to be called helots". .... United States  House slaves  Kholop  Medieval Europe  Panyarring  Thrall  Serfs.
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Greek Society (Article) - Ancient History Encyclopedia  Mar 17, 2013 ... These citizens were called the periokoi (dwellers-round-about) or even worse ... As city populations grew and inheritances became ever more divided ... Spartan women were treated somewhat differently than in other states, for example, they ... However, the serf-class or helots could never achieve any real...
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Spartan Helots | The Helots | Spartan Serfs - Ancient Weapons  The Spartan Helots were the serfs of ancient Sparta, owned by the state and used to ... During wartime the helots would be called upon to help in battle, if not...
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Part I. Helotic Histories. Chapter 3. Hans van Wees, Conquerors and ...  The poet does not seem to have called the Messenians helots (heiltai),and ... centuries later in 370 BC: a state of serfdom imposed as a result of conquest. ... The katnak-wearers were therefore helot-like serfs, who at some point in ... 570 BC, was according to Aristotle a warlike man who ultimately destroyed the city...
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Hamilcar Barca - Livius  Aug 9, 2015 ... Hamilcar Barca rose to fame during the final years of the First Punic War, which the Romans and Carthaginians had started in 264. ... Rome had conquered several cities on Sicily (Messana, Acragas, and ... and it is likely that after a recapture of Panormus, Rome would have been forced to come to terms.
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kievan rus: part 1 - The Last Diadoch  By the 10th century the Slavs under the Kievan Rus wore clothing and armaments ... The Greeks and Romans called these northmen 'Varangus' (Medieval Latin), ... Rurik (862879 CE), Sineus and Truvor brought the Rus with them to rule over ... with the aid of Varangians, came to control the city of Kiev and the land of the...
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Hecuba - Myth Encyclopedia - mythology, Greek, war, hero, king ...  While pregnant with Paris, Hecuba had a dream in which she gave birth to a fiery torch that was ... He began the Trojan Warf by taking away Helen, wife of King Menelaus of Sparta. ... To rescue her, they declared war on Troy, sacking and burning it after a long siege. Hecuba became a slave to the Greek hero Odysseus*.
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ANIMAL ALLIES AND SCORPION BOMBS - Greek Fire, Poison ...  The great Assyrian army camped at Pelusium, in the salt flats and flax fields along the ... In these, the narrative of the war breaks off abruptly, implying that some sort of ..... This same tactic was employed against the Romans in 72 BC by King ..... Animals could also be used to give the enemy an illusion of vast numbers of...
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Ancient Carthage - Wikipedia  Carthage (Qart-adat "new city") was the Phoenician city-state of Carthage and during the 7th ... Details of her life are sketchy and confusing, but the following can be ..... Punic War, members of the Barcid family dominated in Carthaginian politics. ... The navy of Carthage was one of the largest in the Mediterranean, using...
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Pericles: Entire Play  Built up, this city, for his chiefest seat: The fairest in all ... Enter ANTIOCHUS, Prince PERICLES, and followers. ANTIOCHUS ... How they may be, and yet in two, As you will live, .... Enter HELICANUS and ESCANES, with other Lords of Tyre.
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Carthage - The Roman Empire  However, it is beyond doubt that Phoenician settlements in the west were established at ... Phoenician trade is believed to have drawn metals from all across Spain, ... The date of the foundation of the city of Kart Hadasht, or Carthage as we ..... just dealt Rome it's greatest defeat in the war, were both relived of their positions.
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Chapter 2.ppt  Narrow strip of land about 10 miles wide; Early people learned to control river  canals, ... kingdoms without ruling dynasty usually marked by civil wars and/or invasion ... AKA - The Pyramid Age; Rulers called Pharaohs; Chief god  Amon-Re ... About 1700 B.C. invaded by the Hyksos. Hyksos. Adopted Egyptian customs...
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Trojan War - Ancient History Encyclopedia  May 15, 2013 ... The Trojan War, fought between Greeks and the defenders of the city of Troy in ... is Homer's Iliad (written sometime in the 8th century BCE) where he recounts 53 ... Helen was abducted by the Trojan prince Paris (also known as ... War waged back and forth across the plains of Troy over the years, but the...
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Ilkhanate - Topics  The Ilkhanate , also spelled Il-khanate ( Persian :      , Ilkhnn; Mongolian ... Kublai Khan granted Hulagu (Hleg) the title of Ilkhan after his defeat of Ariq Bke. ... The Mongols overran the empire, occupying the major cities and population .... This, combined with patronage from his successors, would develop Iran's...
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Hamilcar Barca - Everything2.com  Oct 13, 2002 ... Hamilcar was a Carthaginian general in the First Punic War, he was also the father of Hannibal, Mago, and Hasdrubal, ... Following the mercenary war he went to Spain with his nine year old son Hannibal, and his son-in-law ... Hamilcar died in 229 B.C. when he drowned retreating from the siege of Helice.
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The Norman Conquest of England, 106687 - The Struggle for ...  To run this system the king appointed local officials of whom the most ..... structures of local government inherited from the Carolingians by taking over for ..... The land was usuually called a feodum, that is a 'fee' or 'fief': hence 'feudalism'.
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The Bloody King - Literature and History  He tortures an opportunistic herdsman who turned against him, having the man's nose .... In the lands of Lydia, long before the Trojan War, there lived a king named ... When Tantalus lifted his hands up, the branches lifted the fruits out of reach. ... in the darkest layer of Hades, was to endure eternal proximity to food and drink...
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Erbil - Wikipedia  Erbil, also spelt Arbil or Irbil, and also known as Hewler is the capital city of Erbil Governorate ... Country, Iraq ... The city was designated as Arab Tourism Capital 2014 by the Arab Council of Tourism. .... the citadel was at last taken after a siege by Ilkhanate troops and Kurdish tribesmen on July 1, 1310, and all the defenders...
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Hamilcar Barca | Carthaginian general | Britannica.com  General who assumed command of the Carthaginian forces in Sicily during the last ... Until the rise to power of his son Hannibal, Hamilcar was the finest ... most likely drowning in the Jucar River while besieging a place called Helice and ... of southern Spain under Hamilcar Barca, Hannibal's father, and founded a new...
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The Phoenicians - World History International  In 64 BC Phoenicia came under the control of the Romans. ... Today the small island on which Tyre once stood is connected with the ... The town is called Sur in Arabic. ... In the 10th century B.C. the city state of Tyre rose to hegemony among ... Sidon reemerged as the dominant city of Phoenicia in the Persian period...