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QR Challenge: Early Slavery in Greece

Question	Answer
question1 What two epic poems are important sources of information about early Greek history?	answer1 The Iliad and the Odyssey.
question2 Who wrote the poems?	answer2 Homer.
question3 When were these epic poems written?	answer3 8th-7th centuries B.C.
question4 How did people become enslaved at this time?	answer4 They were captured during raids.
question5 What roles did slaves have in this time?	answer5 women worked in households, men were personal attendants or worked in agriculture.
question6 He was an Athenian citizen of aristocratic background who was given the power to reform the constitution in an effort to avoid civil war. who was he?	answer6 Solon.
question7 What areas of Athenian society were reformed?	answer7 Law, Currency, Debt, Rights, and Responsibilities of the Social Classes.
question8 In particular, what did the lawgiver condemn?	answer8 theextent of slavery.
question9 Who were "bound in humiliating fetters?"	answer9 Athenians sold to foreign countries.
question10 How were Athenians enslaved at home described?	answer10 "trembling in fear of their masters".
question11 What was 'debt-bondage' in ancient Athens?	answer11 The enslavement of a person for debt.
question12 What was the impact of debt bondage on the local labour supply?	answer12 It reduced the local supply of labour which meant that slaves had to come from further afield.
question13 Where were Greek colonies established in the 6th century B.C.?	answer13 The Mediterranean and the Black Sea.
question14 As a result of increasing trade and commerce, where were most slaves employed?	answer14Specialised workshops in large towns like Athens and Corinth.
question15 In less economically developed places in Greece, like Thessaly, where did the majority of slaves work?	answer15 In domestic and agricultural work.