Slavery in ancient Rome

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    built on it. Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome had many slaves. During the 20th century, almost all countries made laws forbidding slavery. The Universal...
  • place in the Peloponnese, a city-state on the Isthmus of Corinth. Ancient Corinth was one of the largest and most important cities of Ancient Greece...
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    Carthage (redirect from Ancient Carthage)
    an ancient city-state in what is now Tunisia. It began as a Phoenician colony. At the height of its power, Carthage was the most important power in the...
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    Slave trade (category Slavery)
    and could earn enough to purchase their freedom. Ancient Rome was even more dependent on slaves. Slavery was also a part of medieval Europe. Societies that...
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    Slaves were first imported in large numbers for mining and later to grow sugarcane in plantations. Slavery is much more ancient than the transatlantic trade...
  • Greek rhetoric and literature reached its peak centuries before that of ancient Rome. This list covers the letter I. For the main list, see: List of Latin...
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    First Jewish–Roman War (category Wars and battles of Ancient Rome)
    anti-taxation protest against Rome. In Caesarea, the Greeks sacrificed animals in front of a Jewish Synagogue. This resulted in the Jews ceasing sacrifices...
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    In the 21st century, many Islamist groups, such as Boko Haram, or ISIS, have captured and enslaved women and children, often for sexual slavery. In 2014...
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    Ben-Hur (1959 movie) (category Movies set in Ancient Rome)
    released in 1959. It was directed by William Wyler. It stars Charlton Heston as Ben-Hur and Stephen Boyd as Messala. It is set in Ancient Rome and Ancient Judea...
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    purpose. The helots in the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta worked like serfs. So did peasants working on government lands in ancient Rome. However, these...
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    Aesop (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    tradition is that he was at one point freed from slavery and that he eventually died at the hands of Delphians. In fact, the doubt about his life has led some...
  • Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE) (category Wars and battles of Ancient Rome)
    both the city and its Temple. It is said that 1.1 million non-combatants died in the siege. 60,000 Jews were taken captive, and forced into slavery....
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    Methodist Protestant Church reunite to form the Methodist Church. Slavery had divided the church in the 1800s. 1940 Monumento Nacional de Santa Cruz del Valle...
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    sexual slavery. Sex trafficking is when people are taken somewhere in order to be a prostitute. It might be done by forcing them or by tricking them in some...
  • family that owned the land. There was slavery, but it is not clear how it was practiced. The Religion of Ancient Egypt encouraged people to respect their...
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    Ethiopia (category Pages using collapsible list with both background and text-align in titlestyle)
    Violence in North-East Africa: Genealogies of Conflict Since C.1800. Oxford University Press. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-19-921188-3. Ethiopia: land of slavery & brutality...
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    Church's leader, the Bishop of Rome (also known as the Pope), to be the only successor to Saint Peter who ministered in Rome in the first century AD after...
  • seasons of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. The show, primarily set in ancient Greece with a flexible time setting, details the adventures of former...
  • Gladiator (movie) (category Movies set in Ancient Rome)
    Marcus Aurelius. Maximus then becomes a slave and has to fight to the death in the gladiator arenas, while he plans his revenge on Commodus for murdering...
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