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Slavery in Southeast Asia reached its peak in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, when fleets of lanong and garay warships of the Iranun and Banguingui people started engaging in piracy and coastal raids for slave and plunder throughout Southeast Asia from their territories within the Sultanate of Sulu and Maguindanao. It is estimated that ...
Slavery in China has taken various forms throughout history. Slavery was nominally abolished in 1910, [1] [2] [3] although the practice continued until at least 1949. [4] The Chinese term for slave (nuli) can also be roughly translated into 'debtor', 'dependent', or 'subject'. Despite a few attempts to ban it, slavery existed continuously ...
Slavery played a notable role in the economy of the Byzantine Empire. Many slaves were sourced from wars within the Mediterranean and Europe while others were sourced from trading with Vikings visiting the empire. Slavery's role in the economy and the power of slave owners slowly diminished while laws gradually improved the rights of slaves.
The slave market in the Khanate of Khiva was supplied with slaves from Russia, Persia, Central Asia and Siberia by slave raids performed by the Kazakh Khanate and the Turkmens alongside the borders of Russia and Persia and against traveling caravans in Central Asia.
Muslim men sometimes sold their own wives into slavery while on pilgrimage to Mecca, after pretending to be religious to trick the women into marrying them. [74] The slave trade continued into the 20th century. Slavery in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates did not end until the 1960s and 1970s. In the 21st century, activists ...
Part of a series on Communism Concepts Anti-capitalism Class conflict Class consciousness Classless society Collective leadership Communist party Communist revolution Communist state Commune Communist society Critique of political economy Free association "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" Market abolitionism Proletarian internationalism Labour movement Social ...
Slavery and Slaving in World History: A Bibliography; Slavery in Abu Dhabi; Slavery in Ajman; Slavery in Bhutan; Slavery in Dubai; Slavery in Fujairah; Slavery in Nepal; Slavery in Ras Al Khaimah; Slavery in Russia; Slavery in Sharjah; Slavery in the Kingdom of Hejaz; Slavery in the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd; Slavery in the Maldives; Slavery in ...
The Cold War in Asia was a major dimension of the worldwide Cold War that shaped diplomacy and warfare from the mid-1940s to 1991. The main countries involved were the United States, the Soviet Union, China, North Korea, South Korea, North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Indonesia, and Taiwan (Republic of China).