Slavery existed in Rome, Greece, Mesopotamia, Africa, and even in societies that had never interacted with each other. Why did completely different civilizations repeatedly come to the same idea—to turn people into property? In this video, we'll examine five factors that made slavery one of the most stable systems of the ancient world, and discover why economics, warfare, laws, and human thought were much more closely intertwined than we think.
Slavery existed in Rome, Greece, Mesopotamia, Africa, and even in societies that had never interacted with each other. Why did completely different civilizations repeatedly come to the same idea—to turn people into property? In this video, we'll examine five factors that made slavery one of the most stable systems of the ancient world, and discover why economics, warfare, laws, and human thought were much more closely intertwined than we think.