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Slavery in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia
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Slavery in Ancient Egypt & Mesopotamia
Pharaoh's slaves
- Owned every slave
- Would decide were slave would work.
- Made educated slaves work in in the palace.
- Sometimes force slave into building a massive monument to honor him.
- Would treat slave very poorly.
- Made slave do errands they didn't want to do.
Slaves clothing
- Mostly worked in nude
- Some male slaves wore clothes out of animal hides or linen.
- Women slaves would sometimes wear tunic dresses
- Slaves who worked in the quarries or mines wore no clothes
- Poor slaves would also wear no clothes or old dirty rags.
- Important slave would wear same clothes as their master.
- How well you dressed was based on how nice your owner was.
Jobs!
- Made mud bricks
- Constructed building that dominated the town
- Cared for farm animals
- planted and harvested wheat, corn, barley, dates, figs, vegetables, etc.
- Cooked meals
- served cooked meals
- built roads
- washed clothes
- ground grain into flour
- cleaned owners home
- wove cloth that their masters and mistresses wore
Fun Facts!
What was a slave worth?
- Expensive
- Thought of as property.
- Owner wouldn't care if slave died.
- Slaves weren't significant
- Owner didn't care if slave worked to exhaustion, or death.
1. Slaves were often tattooed to mark their status.
2. If a slave had skills and abilities, the slave could achieve a higher position in the society.
3. There was no slave market.
4. Slaves were often set free by their master.
5. One could become a slave for not being able to pay debts.
6. Slaves were the lowest layer on the social pyramid.
7. Prisoners of war were turned into slaves.
8. Slaves captured in war or brought from foreigners were used as slaves.
9. The slaves captured in war would be the Pharaoh's slaves.
10. Pharaoh's would sometimes give slaves as a present to generals or priests.
How it began
- Historians believe that farming led to the beginning of slavery.
- Part of many societies.
- It was a system in which people own other people
- Were nomads
- Word slave comes from group of people called Slavs.