However normal the rest of Sparta is argued to have been, its enslaved majority is not: no reconstruction of the population makes Sparta anything but extraordinarily enslaved.

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• Farmers were the overwhelming majority of every pre-modern agrarian society — 80 to 90 per cent of it — and that single fact shapes everything else about how those societies worked. BDBret Devereaux24 Jul 2020
• Sparta is a cautionary tale rather than a model: an over-militarised, paranoid state that added only oppression to human experience. BDBret Devereaux19 Aug 2022
• The people of the ancient world were not less advanced than we are; they were probably indistinguishable from us. IFIrving Finkel12 Dec 2025
• A system capable of superhuman invention would fundamentally and unpredictably alter the world's balance of power, rather than simply serving individual empowerment. JCJack Clark17 Aug 2026
• The slave trade hardens the people who deal in it; slave dealers are not born worse than other men OEOlaudah Equiano24 Mar 1789

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