| 41. | It seems they could enjoy some private property : in 425 BC, some helots had their own boats.
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| 42. | The absence of a formal census prevents an accurate assessment of the helot population, but estimates are possible.
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| 43. | According to Cartledge, Krypteia members stalked the helot villages and surrounding countryside, spying on the servile population.
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| 44. | As a result of that defeat, Sparta's allies revolted and the helots of Messenia were freed.
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| 45. | They reached the party around the flagstaff, and the only Helots still standing were battered to the ground.
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| 46. | Some texts mention both slaves and helots, which seems to indicate that they were not the same thing.
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| 47. | As Spartan citizenship was inherited by blood, Sparta now increasingly faced a helot population that vastly outnumbered its citizens.
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| 48. | As the Spartiate population declined and the helot population continued to grow, the imbalance of power caused increasing tension.
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| 49. | Helots were encouraged by the Spartans to impose a eugenics doctrine similar to that which they, themselves, practiced.
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| 50. | Thucydides reports that the request met with some success, and the helots got supplies through to the besieged island.
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