SSC MTS EXAM

Detailed explanation-1: -Sparta was an oligarchy. The state was ruled by two hereditary kings of the Agiad and Eurypontid families, both supposedly descendants of Heracles and equal in authority, so that one could not act against the power and political enactments of his colleague.

Detailed explanation-2: -For example, Sparta was a monarchy that functioned as an oligarchy because a few wealthy men were in charge of a society with a large enslaved helots. Oligarchies in ancient Greece never gave political power to women, poor men, helots, or foreigners.

Detailed explanation-3: -The sparsity of ruins from antiquity around the modern city reflects the austerity of the military oligarchy that ruled the Spartan city-state from the 6th to the 2nd century bce.