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If you were living around 477 you were probably a slave, and the fall of Rome coincided with the ban of slavery, so you probably ended up better off just BECAUS

• dash2 9y ago
  Where's the evidence for this? This answer (https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070607071114AApaIqD https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070607071114A...) suggests slavery persisted long beyond 477.
• WillReplyfFood 9y ago
  Goodbye slavery, hello indentured servant. No longer temple building, instead raise those churches, no longer public cruxifictions, instead heathen burning. No longer useless conquests, instead holy crusades.
  • mcguire 9y ago
    If you check, I think you'll find that about 600 years passed between major temple building and major church building.
• Veen 9y ago
  The alternative may have been a gradual improvement of moral and ethical thinking, leading to the end of slavery, while retaining the benefits of civilization and its technological achievements. There were anti-slavery thinkers at the time. Revolution and other types of civilizational collapse essentially never lead to a reduction in suffering or misery, as the 20th century attests. Inequality may be reduced, but that's just because every one is poorer. But it's a moot point because slavery didn't end in 477.
• rhcom2 9y ago
  Instead of being a Roman slave, you could become a Vandal slave or a Hun slave though.