Roman and Germanic Laws Regarding Slavery

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This paper is a study of the contrasts and comparisons of the laws regarding slavery adopted by the Roman and Germanic culture. The paper identifies how the idea of slavery was started and how it developed in both the Roman culture and the Germanic culture. It identifies how in fact, the Dark Ages were considered not so much a time of the end of a culture as they were a time where divergent cultures and peoples were migrating into each other's territories and enforcing the exchange of land and goods all derived from the merging of the Roman and Germanic ideas regarding slavery.

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"In order to compare and contrast how the Ancient Romans and the Ancient Germanic peoples saw slavery, we must first understand why each culture practiced slavery. The ancient Romans had a complex civilization based on slavery. There were two levels of citizenship, patricians (aristocrats) and plebeians (the common people). At the height of its civilization Rome Empire had three slaves for every free person. Except for the poorest farmers living in country, slaves performed almost all-agricultural work."

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