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The Archaic Period of Greece started at 800 BCE after the Dark Ages and lasted for 300 years up to 500 BCE. Archaic Greece is not a single country that has its capital Athens but comprises so many city-state or polis and islands. (Arzamas, 2017) Though there are some notable places like the Marathon and Phebes on the Attica territory, Olympia, Corinth, Argus, Mycenae at Peloponessus, the islands of Naxos, Salamis, and Rhodes. There is two polis that is outstanding among this polis and these are the polis of Athens at the Attica Territory and Sparta at the Peloponnesus. These two city-states though they are called Greek have independent ways of governing themselves that have affected their neighbors' life economically, socially, and politically. As the Spartans are to militarization while the Athenians are to civilization. For Sparta, the military is a way of life and the center of their existence while for Athens it is not. These two polis are the most influential and powerful (Brand, n.d.) thus they are able to rule-over their neighbors. Sparta at the Peloponessus has ruled most of the plain of Laconia since 750 BCE and this plain includes the polis of Messenia which have wage war with them twice first one in 730 BCE and the second one in 685 BCE and both they were crushed. While the Athenians have overseen the Attica territory but their conquest is not only through battles but to luring their neighbors by their citys progress and development. They have a lot of alien residents of non-Athenians descendants and origin called Metics which lives with them like ordinary Athenian citizens but without citizenship rights and needs sponsorship to stay in Athens. The Athenians classify their people by their wealth while Sparta since its military inclination is based on subjugation and thus leaving most of the male non-citizens and their families as slaves called Helots and the male citizen as soldiers, Homoioi, but they have also free men from neighboring cities called Periokols. The Helots which comprise mostly of Messenians, thus their tendency to revolt for their freedom, are serf slaves which means that most of their products or output is given to their Spartan masters and they are slaves for life. The Athenians have also their slaves but for private needs by the various class of Athens and not for the public like the Spartans Helots which they call Chattel Slavery. (Brand, n,d.) Unlike Sparta, Athens on their entry to the Classical period have made some reforms on their social classification. Before they use to have three classes of people, the men of the plain which comprises of wealthy farmers, the men of the coast which compose mostly of merchants and traders, and lastly the men of the hills which are the poor urban dwelling on the hills. Through the innovativeness of the two aristocrats Solon and Cleisthenes their effort culminated to the idea of classifying Athenian citizen by the number of bushels that a citizen has being the one the top with 500 bushels or more with the middle-class at 200 bushels and more and the lowest with 199 bushels or less. These classifications have bearing on Athenians life because if you are the top you can be one of the 10 Generals selected for its executive post while for the middle class or Thetes becoming a Hoplite soldier is a dream and for the lowest class a Trireme rower is more than enough. (Brand, n,d.)

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