Slavery Across Kingdoms
From Slavery to Captivity & The Cultural Difference.
Aaron McCaffity
African American History
Dr. Ozomeyo
April 25,2012 Slavery has existed throughout many cultures in various forms during history. Slavery is the system of capturing individuals against their will or voluntarily and treating such as property by selling or purchasing to the same time as agriculture because agriculture relied on the domestication of the animal species to transport material. Before agriculture, there was a hunter-gatherer system. A system in which to eat you must kill. The life-style and economic activities of hunter-gathers rendered anyone from being capable of maintaining and controlling substantial numbers of slaves while still being able to properly maintain. From the Stone Age down into the Middle Ages, the color of your skin was not what made you a slave. Most slaves in Europe and West Asia were white, and most black people were free (most white people were free too, and some black people were slaves). People became slaves in a lot of different ways. Instead of using slaves for economic and cultural purposes in the prehistoric days; the system was an accepted practice because it was based on the projected natural inferiority of individuals to more superior individuals and it was central to the economies of most major world civilizations.
Slavery in Mesopotamia Historians believe that slavery as a major institution probably occurred with the development of agriculture about 10,000 BC. This occurred in Mesopotamia. The women and the children of those populations conquered. The offspring of these enslaved people provided a vast slave work force. Historically dating back to 10,000 B.C under the world’s first upcoming city of Mesopotamia, historians explain the origin and usage of slaves. Instead of buying and purchasing, slaves were the direct result of an empire being defeated. Although there isn’t much known about the
Aaron McCaffity
African American History
Dr. Ozomeyo
April 25,2012 Slavery has existed throughout many cultures in various forms during history. Slavery is the system of capturing individuals against their will or voluntarily and treating such as property by selling or purchasing to the same time as agriculture because agriculture relied on the domestication of the animal species to transport material. Before agriculture, there was a hunter-gatherer system. A system in which to eat you must kill. The life-style and economic activities of hunter-gathers rendered anyone from being capable of maintaining and controlling substantial numbers of slaves while still being able to properly maintain. From the Stone Age down into the Middle Ages, the color of your skin was not what made you a slave. Most slaves in Europe and West Asia were white, and most black people were free (most white people were free too, and some black people were slaves). People became slaves in a lot of different ways. Instead of using slaves for economic and cultural purposes in the prehistoric days; the system was an accepted practice because it was based on the projected natural inferiority of individuals to more superior individuals and it was central to the economies of most major world civilizations.
Slavery in Mesopotamia Historians believe that slavery as a major institution probably occurred with the development of agriculture about 10,000 BC. This occurred in Mesopotamia. The women and the children of those populations conquered. The offspring of these enslaved people provided a vast slave work force. Historically dating back to 10,000 B.C under the world’s first upcoming city of Mesopotamia, historians explain the origin and usage of slaves. Instead of buying and purchasing, slaves were the direct result of an empire being defeated. Although there isn’t much known about the
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