| Question | Answer |
| question1 What two epic poems are important sources of information about early Greek history? | answer1 The Iliad and the Odyssey.
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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. |
