13 sentences with 'slave'
Example sentences and phrases with the word slave and other words derived from it.
• « In addition, Spartans in training were often forced to steal food (from their own slave farms); they were punished if caught, but the offence was being caught, not theft - the idea being that the future warrior had failed to live up to the required level of skill in stealth. »
• « The reason for all this militaristic mania was simple: Sparta was a slave society. Approximately 90% of the population of the area under Sparta's control were colonists, serfs descended from the population conquered by Sparta in the 8th century. »
• « In short, Spartan society was a military hierarchy that grew out of fear of a mass slave uprising. »
• « There was also a thriving slave trade among all the great civilisations of the ancient world; African slaves were captured and sold in Egypt, Greek slaves to Persia (despite its nominal ban on slavery, it is clear that at least some slavery existed in Persia), nomadic people from the steppes in the Black Sea ports, and so on. »
• « Likewise, there was no worse fate than being a slave in a salt mine (one of the areas containing a natural underground salt deposit). »
• « A status symbol in Rome was to have a Greek slave who could teach his children the Greek language and learning Greek. »
• « Roman slaves covered the same range of jobs seen in other slave societies such as the Greeks: elite slaves lived much more comfortably than most free Romans, but most were labourers or domestic servants. »
• « Also, the long-term effect of the growth of slavery in Rome was to undermine the social status of free Roman citizens, with farmers in particular struggling to survive while wealthy Romans bought up land and built huge slave plantations. »
• « Over the centuries, poor farmers found it increasingly difficult to hold on to their land, both because they could not compete with the huge slave plantations of the rich and because of outright extortion. »
• « Not only were slaves captured in war, but children born to slave mothers were automatically slaves as well. »
• « The second caliph, Umar, was assassinated by a slave in 644 and Muslim leaders had to choose the next caliph. They chose an early convert and companion of Muhammad, Uthman. »
• « Shah Abbas switched from relying on tribal warriors in warfare to using slave soldiers armed with guns, a practice the Ottomans had already used to great effect in their conquests in the west. »