10 sentences with “slaves”

At the same time, prostitution was very common, with most prostitutes being slaves.

By 450 BCE, one third of the population of Athens and its territories consisted of slaves.

He used public money to buy Athenian slaves who had been enslaved abroad and bring them back to Athens.

The kingdom of Nubia was rich in gold, ivory and slaves, taken from neighbouring lands, making it a rich and powerful place in its own right.

Women were completely excluded from political life, as were free non-citizens (including many prosperous Greeks who were not born in Athens) and, of course, slaves.

For a long time, historians thought they were built by slaves, but it now seems very likely that they were built by free labourers employed by the king and paid by royal agents.

As Greece became richer and more powerful, the demand for slaves increased dramatically as each polis found itself in need of more labour, so a major objective for warfare became the capture of slaves.

Unlike Sparta, however, Rome was able to mobilise gigantic armies, in part because slaves came to do most of the work on farms and in workshops over time, freeing free Roman men to participate in the annual invasions of neighbouring territories.

About 20,000 slaves escaped from the Athenian silver mines that had originally paid for the army before the Persian war and were received by the Spartans as conscripts (thus reinforcing the Spartan forces and cutting off Athens' main source of revenue).

Two generations later, when the Neo-Babylonian empire itself fell to the Persians, the Persian emperor Cyrus the Great allowed all the slaves of the Babylonians to return to their lands, so the Babylonian captivity came to an end and the Jews returned to Judah, where they rebuilt the Temple.