WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -Enslaved people constituted the lowest level of the Sumerian social classes. Typically, enslaved people were captured from other societies during military campaigns or raids and subsequently forced into servitude.

Detailed explanation-2: -Slaves were bought and sold in the market and branded. They worked in irrigation projects, temples and palaces. In the Babylonian period, enslavement for debt was illegal.

Detailed explanation-3: -Lower Class The group was made up of farmers and those that did manual labor. There were few privileges for lower class Mesopotamians. People in this group dressed plainly. Lower class people kept the civilization fed and provided raw materials to skilled craftsmen and artisans.

Detailed explanation-4: -Slavery was already institutionalized by the time the first civilizations emerged (such as Sumer in Mesopotamia, which dates back as far as 3500 BC). Slavery features in the Mesopotamian Code of Hammurabi (c. 1750 BC), which refers to it as an established institution.