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of the Spartan population
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from the standpoint of the Spartan economy,
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essential for the kind of state Sparta becomes,
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and they are permanently dissatisfied.
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They are permanently angry,
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they are permanently thinking about somehow getting free
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and permanently, therefore, presenting a threat
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to whatever the Spartan regime is at the time.
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So, that's a very, very important development.
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Now, probably before that happened,
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the Spartans like some of the other states,
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send out colonies, only two.