Digital History Printable Version Slavery in the Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Worlds Previous Next Digital History ID 3027 Slavery dates back to prehistoric times and was apparently modeled on the domestication of animals. From the earliest periods...
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Digital History Printable Version Slavery in the Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Worlds Previous Next Digital History ID 3027 Slavery dates back to prehistoric times and was apparently modeled on the domestication of animals. From the earliest periods of recorded history, slavery was found in the world's most "advanced" regions. The earliest civilizations--along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Mesopotamia, the Nile in Egypt, the Indus Valley of India, and China's Yangtze River Valley--had slavery. The earliest known system of laws, the Hammurabi Code, recognized slavery. But the percentage of slaves in these early civilizations was small, in part because male war captives were typically killed, while women were enslaved as field laborers or concubines. Only a handful of societies made slavery the dominant labor force. The first true slave society in history emerged in ancient Greece between the 6th and 4th centuries. In Athens during the classical period, a third to a half of th
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