Setting of slave

With the emergence of cities created an urban population , which previously was not known . Sources do not clear the composition and character of the population , but since cities were economic and administrative center , and their population consisted of broad masses of producers craftsmen , farmers and graziers , the owners of craft workshops , dealers and the old aristocracy constituted tribal rulers of the city . As such , the city's population stood socially differentiated into layers , with different interests . From their owners and merchants formed workshops new enriched layer , which eventually moved into the background of the old tribal aristocracy .
As the economic and political center separate towns surrounded a rural population associated with them through mutual economic interests . In these populations, resources are still recognized tribes as large or small , but the tribe has its most classic sense . The very appearance of cities and cutting circulation coins are elements that do not comply with tribal order , they give the community a new content in terms of economic and social relations .



As in Macedonia , Epirus and neighbors this time , most of the population lived in villages in Illyria , cities were still in small numbers . The bulk of the population of the free peasantry form , but also resources to make such a rural population dependent . Theopompi in his " philippic " writes that " ardiana have 300 thousand prospelatë as hēlots ... " . With prospelatë old authors understand a dependent population that deal with land preparation and gave her owners as part of a production constraint . By comparing the ardiana prospelatët with hēlots of Sparta , Theopompi better defines their social status . Apparently they were also , as hēlots , a subject population that were expropriated after the invasion and were able dependency back . We have no evidence that this was a foreign population or another Illyrian tribe suffered this fate , their number should also be increased, but remains the undisputed fact that we are dealing with a population size which exerted pressure on economic and political .
Between the Illyrians this was not a phenomenon unique to ardiana . A century later in his Agatharkidi " Evropaikon " will confirm that " Dardans have so many slaves ( he calls them by name " dullos " ) , as someone had 1000 , and others even more . Each of these works land in peacetime , and in wartime army takes part in taking the chief god ( " despotes " ) him. "

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Although Agatharkidi dullos uses the term , further explanations make it clear that we are dealing with a population ardiana prospelatëve type . There is no doubt that the term " dullos " is used here in the broadest sense , as is often the case that ancient authors call hēlots " Dullë the lakeldemonëve " .


Another case is that Atheneu mention , for penestët . According to him " TheSale penestë call not those who are born slaves , but those who put in hand by the war." It is known that the name of a tribe called penestë whole territory of the Illyrian Kingdom . Atheneut definition leads to the conclusion that the population of this family must have been similar in terms of social status and Dull ardiana prospelatët of Dardan .
The presence of such a population dependent and exploited economically between the Illyrians , is an important evidence to determine the character and structure of Illyrian society . As the authors of ancient records , population - dependent type prospelatë hēlots - penestë represent at this time in Illyria an early form of slavery that existed in some of the main Illyrian populations . This category of people used to measure agricultural work and perhaps even mining . Their masters ( despots ) seems to dwell on small towns or cities fortified . Most of the time they spent in wars and cause attractions . Theopompi tells us that rulers prospelatëve ardiana " drank every day , arrange meetings and taken up to the feast , fond of eating and drinking ." The rest of the population constitute measures of free peasants playing , apparently , still a key role in social production .
In addition to benefiting from the work of the local population , rich layers provide good material through collective looting of neighboring peoples through wars . Annual tributes that people were forced to pay the subject show that these robberies were committed in a systematic manner .

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So the century . Pesona IV , presented Illyrian society as a society divided into classes and social strata . This company knew then early forms of addiction slave , and thus was a slave society . East of the city helped to deepen the social differentiation , because becoming important centers of handicrafts and trade them gave rise to increased production , money exchange and foreign labor exploitation .
Without overestimating the weight and role of Illyrian city this early stage it can be said that not only acts as a carrier of slavery , but also as a tool of its surrounding rural world . Connected to the city by economic relations and his dependents through these relationships , Illyrian rural world , especially what was around cities is not the world of tribalism . It now recognizes the dependency relationships in the form of slavery helo type .
Thus , in the nineteenth century . IV Illyrian city presented us with a significant role in the weight of economic and social life of Illyria . As such, it served as the basis of national political organization .