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Student Questions - How did slavery begin? Where did slavery originate? What sparked the idea of slavery? When did slavery first occur in a civilization? Why was it created? What was slavery like in other cultures?  Was there a certain period of time where slavery was the most prominent and popular ?

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How did slavery begin? Slavery mostly began in Ancient Greece, and Rome, when it was simply more cost and time effective to take slaves than to kill them. Most ancient Asian nations had slaves, and used them to perform various tasks. There were many slaves in ancient Rome as well training them for any kind of work. Some slaves were made to fight each other to the their death for the cities entertainment.

It is believed that slavery was first "massed produced" slavery was in Ancient Egypt at the time of the Pharaohs. They used millions upon millions of slaves to build their pyramids. The living conditions were terable and most of the slaves died in the building process, the ones that sevived din't for long.

Wherever there has been a great civilization, slavery has, more than less been a sad part of these nations history. From the Greeks to the Romans, coming up in different forms, slavery has made it's appearance and darkened the name of humanity all over the world. The idea behind slavery was formed by human greed and the feeling of superiority that plagues the great human race still today. Superiority is the deluded view that sparked the idea of  slavery and also other terrible conflicts such as the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide and the Trail of Tears. Slavery, as well as being passed down through the generations from father to son, has been a reoccurring idea all over the world from the dawn of civilization to the communication age of today.

<span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">When did slavery first occur in a civilization? Why was it created?
=<span style="color: rgb(1, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Slavery is as old as civilization; it first appeared in Mesopotamia. With the development of agriculture came the need for a work force, and thus arouse slavery. However, the first people to truly understand slavery were the Ancient Greek. Connor S= <span style="background-color: rgb(253, 237, 237)"> <span style="color: rgb(1, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Slavery first occurred in America in 1619 when the first African slaves arrived at the Virginia colony in Jamestown. They were brought by a Dutch ship and there was 20 of them at that time that had come on the ship. Slavery was created for many reasons one being the vast majority of slaves worked on plantations in the production of cotton, sugar, tobacco, and rice. Slavery was also created because it was a profitable but not all-pervasive institution in the British colonies of North America. A rebellion against the planter gentry by unruly, lower-class whites in the colony convinced upper-class whites in the coastal regions to replace the indentured laborers with the more easily disciplined and less expensive slaves. <span style="background-color: rgb(253, 237, 237)"> Pictures: http://www.realhistories.org.uk/uploads/images/Tomb_of_Nakht.jpg Here is an Ancient Egyptian wall painting. It depicts slave life in Ancient Egypt. <span style="background-color: rgb(253, 237, 237)">

The sketch is from a wall relief in ancient Egypt where Pharaoh's soldiers lead women and children away as slaves.

Slavery has existed since ancient times. Slavery was prominent in both Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece, as well as Egypt. America was definitely not the first county to own slaves. Here is an article describing several aspects of slavery in Ancient Rome. -Emma K. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/slavery_01.shtml This website contains some information about slaves in Ancient Greece. -Emma K. http://www.ancientgreece.co.uk/dailylife/home_set.html

//What was slavery like in other cultures?//

Slavery has varied from culture to culture. Slaves have been used for many tasks and many people have been used a slaves. Greece used slaves for more domestic work around the house where as the Romans used slaves for many purposes from barbaric entertainment in the form of gladiator fights to tax agents. The Caesar's owned thousands of slaves to indulge in their every whim. Depending on the needs of the slaver, the slave was forced to do that which their master were too aloof to do. Slaves in concentration camps in Poland and other German captured provinces in World War 2 were forced to make weapons of war for the Nazi's ill-fated campaign. In short, what-ever was nescessary to that culture, the slaves would do that task.

Slavery was different in different cultures. There were many tasks that slaves were used for. Different countries/different regions had different uses for slaves, thus their slaves received different treatment and carried out different duties. -Emma K.

//Was there a certain period of time where slavery was the most prominent and popular?// Slavery has never been "popular" but it depends on which side you look at it from. The slave owners loved slaves for there cheap labor and the feeling of supiriority that they got from the misguided idea that these people were not equal to themselves. People who understood the struggles of being opressed and treated like animals rose to preach of the immorality of slavery. Popularity is a matter of public opinion. As for slavery being prominent, slavery was quite noticable in early Rome and the South in the United states where slaves where used for numerous jobs.

//In some ancient civilizations like ancient greece and rome, most slaves were either prisoners of war or the poverty stricken citizens in need of food. Most slaves were worked to death in the city or on the roads and the monuments of these cultures. Yet some were forced to fight to the death with each other or wild animals in the colosseums they might have helped build just for the wealthy people of the cultures entertainment. The Grecians even put their slaves that they captured armies into battle against their old friends.

What were the main groups in different countries that were used as slaves?

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Here is a Link that explains slavery in ancient Greece even though it is brief: http://www.crystalinks.com/greekslavery.html

[#htmldiff1]] http://www.newint.org/issue337/history.htm This website is great for finding out where slavery originated from and gives a general overview of slavery and the most prominent cultures that had it.

 http://www.shelbycountyhistory.org/schs/blackhistory/originslavery.htm this website gives a great idea of how and where slavery started, although rather brief.

 http://www.newint.org/issue337/history.htm In this webpage they talk about link there is information on ancient slavery in Rome, Greece and Europe. Europe, and Greece. This website talks is about the actions for global justice.

http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/history/overview.htm In this link you can find a lot about slavery- everything from an overview to all of the history of slavery in America. This link can give you information about most of the things you need to know/find out about slavery. It helps by giving you dates and places etc. and what happened then.

http://www.infoplease.com/timelines/slavery.html This link is to a timeline that has events that happened all throughout slavery. It gives you dates and information on what happened on that day/year. It helps identify major points and times in slavery easily.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/ This PBS link helps- it gives you subjects about all things ranging in the category of slavery- from the living conditions, legal rights, freedom, Education, Arts, Religion and so many more. It will help give specific facts and information about the specific topic you want to know about and get information about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFAExzwjDC0&feature=related This youtube video gives a basic overview and contains basic background information on slavery to help give us more background and more knowledge about slavery to help us. It contains a lot of basic facts and information on slavery that may be helpful.

http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aaslavry.htm This link lets you search under almost every topic you want to learn about that's about slavery. It contains links to a ton of good, reliable information on specific aspects of slavery. =