WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

ANCIENT GREECE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What colour did slaves brand non-voters
A
A nice shade of dark grey
B
A nice shade of light grey
C
A nice shade of pink
D
A nice shade of red
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Slaves were punished for not working fast enough, for being late getting to the fields, for defying authority, for running away, and for a number of other reasons. The punishments took many forms, including whippings, torture, mutilation, imprisonment, and being sold away from the plantation.

Detailed explanation-2: -Black had become the colour both of anarchism and of fascism, political ideologies at opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of attitudes towards political authority.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Oxford English Dictionary defined mulatto as “one who is the offspring of a European and a Black". This earliest usage regarded “black” and “white” as discrete “species", with the “mulatto” constituting a third separate “species".

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