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To: freedom44
What stretches the limits of hypocrisy is that there isn't a single shred of archeological evidence that the Persians ever owned slaves.
Oh, now THAT is funny. What about historical evidence.
Even al-islam.org recognizes that slavery existed then.
Slavery in Ancient Times
In Persia the palace of the Emperor had twelve thousand women slaves. When the Byzantine Emperor sat on the throne, thousands of slaves remained in attendance with full attention and hundreds of them bowed when he bent to put on his shoes.
If anyone would know about the issue they should!

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition slavery
References to it appear in the ancient Babylonian code of Hammurabi. Its form and nature varied greatly in ancient society. It seems to have been common in the Tigris-Euphrates civilizations and in ancient Persia.

Hammurabi's Code of Laws

21 posted on 08/20/2007 12:57:20 AM PDT by philman_36
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To: philman_36

1. The code of Hammurabi was as you said Babylonian, not Persian. Within the Persian Empire the local laws and costums remained largely in place. The Babylonian law would have continued in Babylon, but certainly not in all of the Empire. At least there is no reason to my knowledge to assume that.

2.
I am surprised why you trust an Islamist website for
historical source. They are the least someone would
trust on anything. I’m sure the Islamists have also a lot of things to say about Jews, Christians and the West.
I doubt you would agree with their views.


22 posted on 08/20/2007 1:04:11 AM PDT by SolidWood
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