These people were subject to oversight by a (*) police force known as the Krypteia, and after returning from Colonae, the general Pausanias was charged with a plot to engineer an uprising of these people.
At one point, the Argives established a base on Cythera for the purpose of recruiting these people to conduct raids. According to Thucydides, a war against these people was triggered by the Thasos revolt and lasted ten years. The neaodamodeis were a group of these people recruited for hoplite service. These people were subject to oversight by a (*) police force known as the Krypteia, and after returning from Colonae, the general Pausanias was charged with a plot to engineer an uprising of these people. Upon entering office, ephors would symbolically declare war on these people, who may have been the original inhabitants of Laconia before the Doric invasion. Including the subjugated population of Messenia, for 10 points, identify these state slaves of Sparta.
At one point, the Argives established a base on Cythera for the purpose of recruiting these people to conduct raids.
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