... War in the 6th century was to create a state of soldiers to effectively control the helots, who vastly outnumbered the Spartiates. This represented a weakness in the state and economic structure that hindered its power, and Aristotle (from The Politics, quoted in Hennessy, 1991, 69) is critical of Sparta's brutal methods employed to control them as he states "results of this kind go ... possessed private property (this) led, finally to greed, honoring of wealth", which demonstrates how corruption led to a departure from the traditional economic organisation of relative "equality" in Spart...

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