How did many europeans justify their enslavement of africans? a. by promising to release them after ten years of servitude b. they said slaves would have a better life in the americas c. by granting land to all slaves once they reached the americas d. by believing in religious ideas that supported the enslavement of non-christian people

D

that if a slave was non-Christian, then slaveholders were civilizing and Christianizing” them for their own benefit. And slaveholders were upholding their God-given position as Christians to enslave pagans and infidels. It was all a part of God’s plan.

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when we think of a­ncient paga­n kings, the ideas of justice and fairness probably aren't the first things to come to mind. we moderns may be more likely to imagine fickle, power-hungry despots who were ready to put someone to death on a whim. but king hammurabi, who ruled a prosperous and thriving babyloniaalmost four millennia ago, doesn't quite fit that mold. he claimed to have protect the weak from oppression, and scholars believe he fostered an atmosphere of justice and righteousness for his people.

this belief is based on an object that was discovered only a century ago. it has already earned a place alongside the rosetta stone as one of the most important artifacts of the ancient world. this stela (stone pillar) bears the inscription of the code of hammurabi, and it has shed light on the laws, culture and life in babylonia.

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