Slavery In Ancient Times

Slavery has been around for many years in civilizations as old as Sumer. It was also in every other civilization like  Ancient Egypt, Ancient China, the Akkadian Empire, Assyria, Ancient India, Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, the Islamic Caliphate, and the  pre-Columbian civilizations of the Americas. All of these were a mixture of debt-slavery, punishment for crime, the enslavement of prisoners of war, child abandonment, and the birth of slave children to slaves. In Ancient Greece, Aristotle the philosopher accepted the idea of natural slavery which meant that some men were slaves by nature. The Roman Republic also as they expanded their empire used everyone they conquered as slaves. Many like Greeks, Illyrians, Berbers, Germans, Britons, Thracians, Gauls, Jews, Arabs, and many more were slaves not only used to work but to use for amusement as well (gladiators and sex slaves). When the slaves would be put down and embarrassed it all usually led to slave revolts against the oppression. Examples of those revolts would be the Roman Servile Wars, also the Third Servile War being the most famous and severe led by Spartacus. An estimate of over 25% of Ancient Rome was enslaved and also 35% of Italy's population was enslaved.