Slavery is as old as humans. Slaves were taken from the survivors of battles, wars, and conquests. The word slave is taken from slavs, the southern European people living in the Yugoslavia area.
There is no exact date or place that slavery can be given. Thousands of years of slavery have existed. The bible talks about slaves and slaves were bought and sold by civilizations from the earliest times.
The Slavs originally lived in what is now Russia. Then the vikings from Scandinavia began raiding and later conquering the land, much as they did in Britain and France. So the two cultures that blended together in Russia were the Slavs and the Vikings.
generally positive-- they improved roads, taxation, and communication
Germanic, Huns and Slavs
Slavs not Slaves. Slavs are Slavic people living in eastern Europe, slaves were treated as sub-humans and sold as live-stock at live-stock auctions. The Slavic people were simply part of the European population then, and now.
Slavery is as old as humans. Slaves were taken from the survivors of battles, wars, and conquests. The word slave is taken from slavs, the southern European people living in the Yugoslavia area.
Throughout human history the losers of battles and wars were made slaves. The root of the word slaves was from white Slavs who were taken prisoner and enslaved!
Hitler belived the Jews, Slavs and other ethnic minorites were subhuman people fit to be slaves.
Hitler belived the Jews, Slavs and other ethnic minorites were subhuman people fit to be slaves.
The western Slaves settled in Poland, the Czech Republic, as well as Slovakia. These are people that are Slavic, from Europe.Ê
slavs would sing their feelings and sing about freedom and life
Originally, European slaves consisted mostly of Slavs, where the word is derived from. The pope of the Catholic Church around the time decided that using Christians as slaves was not a good thing, most of the Slavic slaves being Christians. So, Africa was homed in on as an easy place to get slaves with no Christians.
they were at the mercy of their owners but they may marry a free-born person.
The people in russia I guess?
At what age did female slaves begin to have children.
the Slavs did settle in Belarus and Ukraine.