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Why was the tyrant able to Seize control in Athens?
The tyrant was able to seize control in Athens due to a combination of social unrest, political instability, and the existing power struggles among the aristocracy. Many citizens were discontent with the oligarchic rule, which led to a desire for strong leadership. Additionally, the tyrant often garnered popular support by promising reforms, land redistribution, and relief from debt, positioning themselves as champions of the common people against the elite. This allowed them to consolidate power and establish a dictatorship.
What was the main effect of the system of debt peonage that emerged in the South during the late 19th century?
African Americans labored in a system that was nearly the same as slavery.
What is sharecropping and debt peonage as practiced in the US and what are the effects on those involved?
Sharecropping was very popular after the end of slavery in the US. It enabled very poor farmers of any color to earn a living from land owned by someone else. Debt peonage kept workers poor by forcing them to purchase goods from company run stores. This occurred both in the coal mines and in sharecropping.
The business of buying and selling human beings?
Slavery is a system in which people are treated as property and are often bought and sold as property.There are a few different types of slavery:Chattel slavery in which people are bought and sold like property. The Atlantic slave trade was this form of slavery.Bonded labor in which someone works to pay off a loan, the debt of which can be passed through generations.Lower caste slavery in which people are slaves based solely on their socioeconomic status within a society.Forced labor in which a person must work against their will with restrictions on their freedom; forced prostitution, human trafficking, and sex slavery fall under this category.Forced marriage is a form of slavery in which one or both of the individuals are married against their will.
Current trends of public debt in India?
trends of public debt in india
What challenges did Greek farmers face?
Poor soil, seasonal failures, plant disease, slavery for debt, rapacious upper class rulers.
What kind of slavery involved working off debt?
Debt bondage is a form of modern day slavery.
Who was the tyrant disliked for passing a debt slave law in aceient Greece?
Solon
What did Solon outlaw to bring an end to turmoil in ancient Athens?
Solon outlawed debt slavery which is when people with severe debt would sell themselves into slavery to get out of debt.
How did athenians about the changes solon put in place?
Those who had been sold into slavery for debt were glad to be redeemed. The general mass of the population was glad to have rights to property confirmed, and not be liable to be sold into slavery for debt. The aristocracy were unhappy to lose unfettered control and worked to regain it when Solon's year in office ended. It regress to the stage where the majority put a tyrant in place to protect themselves from this reversion to the bad old days.
Who abolished debt slavery in Athens?
Solon
What did Solon change under his rule?
He ended debt-slavery and bought back the farmers sold into slavery. He limited the absolute power of the aristocrats, hoping to bring about an acceptable balance. He left office at the ed of his year, and things slipped back, so that there was popular support for the rise of a tyrant Pisistratus to restore a workable balance to Athenian society.
Who was the Athenian ruler who outlawed debt slavery?
-solon
What were some divisions in Greek society?
The large landowners dominated. In addition they lent seed grain to small farmers after droughts and if the debt was not repaid could sell the debtor into foreign slavery to recoup the debt. Women were an underclass, kept in purdah in the home to work and reproduce. Slaves, over a quarter of the population, were treated at the whim of their masters. While the debt-slavery problem was resolved to avoid revolution, the other problems of women and slaves remained.
What types of slavery are there?
Human trafficking forced labour debt bondage plantation slavery and many more
What were the 2 main kinds of slavery?
The two main kinds of slavery historically were chattel slavery, where enslaved individuals were considered the property of their owners and had no rights, and debt bondage, where individuals were enslaved to work off a debt but still had some limited rights.
The Athenian ruler who outlawed debt slavery was?
Solon :D
