Slaves in ancient Mesopotamia helped improve the empires. Slaves were multiplied and more and more civilians became slaves and are benefiting the growth of the empires. Mesopotamians depended on slaves to build their empires. Slavery played an important role of the development in the empires. During ancient Mesopotamia, slaves had to go through a lot of tough measures to make their empire great. For example, laws towards slaves were harsh especially ones that tried to escape. Slaves were multiplied and more civilians became slaves and were benefiting the empires. If one owed debt, they would have to send their wives and children into slavery for a certain amount of time. Every time that someone had the debt to someone slaves multiplied.
