1. By Tyler Mahannah Peoples and EmpiresAlexander the GreatThe Roman EmpireSlavery

2. Son of Phillip II, Alexander took control of fathers army after his death. 336-323 Alexander’s empire was the most expansive the ancient world has ever seen. Alexander destroyed the great Achaemenid Persian Empire. He united vast regions of what is now Europe and Asia. Alexander the great pupil of Aristotle. In the winter of 333 Alexander defeated the great Persian army at Issus. In 326 he opted against a river crossing and decided to retreat, claiming it was the will of the Gods. In 323 Alexander attended a banquet and drank himself to death. Alexander the Great

3. Rome during the seventh century B.C. was a small city-state of farmers and tradesmen, by the late sixth century it became a republic By 272 B.C. they had taken control of the Italian Peninsula , then moving to Sicily and Carthage. Rome conquered what was left of Greece after Alexander and the kingdoms Macedonia, Asia, and Syria became Roman Provinces. Caesar leads army down the peninsula to defeat Pompey, Pompey falls in Pharssalus in Thessaly in 48 B.C. 324 Constantine names Constantinople the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire. 4th century Constantine makes Christianity Rome’s official religion. 212 A.D Emperor Caracalla grants citizenship to all free inhabitants of Rome. 410 Alaric the Goth sacks the city of Rome which brings the end of Roman rule in the Western Empire. Roman rule still reigns in the east until 1453 when Constantinople is conquered by Ottoman Turks. The Roman Empire

4. All empires in history up to the beginning of the 19th century A.D. have been slave owning. Before the African Slave Trade slaves came from all over the world from Syria, Egypt, Judia, and from Dacia, Moesia, Germany, Gaul and Britain. In 1444 the first cargo of 235 Africans were taken from Senegal and sold ashore in the port of Lagos in Portugal. In the New World sugar was responsible for the slave trade between the 15th and 19th centuries. In 1792 Denmark was the first to outlaw slave trading. In the beginning of the 19th century formal slavery came to an end in the overseas territories of European empires. By 1970 the trade had come to an end world wide. Slavery