thread: 2007-03-19 : Tonight we dine
On 2007-03-19, Avram wrote:
Wait, Scarz, you're complaining that the Persians enslaved people? Ever hear of helots? There's some actual enslavement for you.
Under the Achaemenid Persians, subject nations could live their own lives and follow their own faiths. (It was Cyrus the Great who freed the Jewish hostages of the Babylonian Exile, and encouraged them to rebuild the Temple.) The Spartans, on the other hand, were a totalitarian military state living on slave labor.
