Western Civilization I / Unit 6 WC1 0516 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Slavery as Rome's Engine, and Spartacus, 73 to 71
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The idea
The anchor puts slaves at a third or more of Italy, giving two figures. Loot supplied them; plantations and mines used them; abuse had no consequence. Spartacus led about seventy thousand from seventy-three to seventy-one; Crassus crucified six thousand.
In practice
The anchor's claim that slavery stifled innovation, attributed.
Where people slip
The anchor also says seventy for the defeat. It was seventy-one.
Your place on the trail
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