Terms and Points #2

Question 1

Perioikoi

Answer 1

• lit. “dwellers-round-about”
• the free inhabitants of the towns, OTHER THAN SPARTA AND AMYKLAI, of Lakonia and Messenia (after the conquest)
• compromise between independece and subordination :
  
  • free man & members of communities;
  • part of the polis of “the Lakedaimonians”.
• local autonomy but not full citizenship
• liable to serivce in the Spartan army
• some - monopolized industry and **trade **:
  
  • foreigners’ acess to the Spartan economy - only through them or officials
  • trading with outsiders, used the form of unwieldy iron bars (prohibited for the use by full Spartan citizens)

>> held a privileded position monopolizing _important economic activities t_hat were essential to the state yet prohibited to the Spartans.