By Hamlet Ghukasyan & Dimitri Roumeliotis

• The Greeks were the first people who came up with an idea about slavery/immigration.

• Other countries like Rome took the idea of slavery/immigration and added on to it.

CHEAP LABOR

Romans would get their slaves from the wars that they had and they would

capture them. The Romans would have their slaves

do anything they would tell them, which equals to cheap labor.

Results of Immigration/SlaveryFor Rome

• Less jobs available for local citizens• Over populated land • Many coulters• Many languages• Racial problems• Unhappy families

Slavery Treatment • Rome had the most slaves• Very dependent on them • Reasonable treatment of slaves

was necessary. • Slaves were given many

privileges• Comfort, good clothes, descent

food• Masters showed their loyalty by

giving their slaves the right to have their own money.

US Immigration

• Major source of population• Culture change • Less jobs available for citizens• Different languages• Racial problems• More crime

Against Illegal Immigrants

• Captured and deported

• No legal rights on US land

• No public education• No legal jobs

• 12.7 million immigrants • 32% of all living immigrants

are Mexicans• 55% of Mexican immigrants

are in USA illegally • 5% Filipinos

Conclusion

• United States seems like followed Romans footsteps to the path of greatness.

• Both immigrants and Roman slaves did the cheap labor.

• United States took Romans ideas but are still different in some ways.

Work Cited for Images • http://trendsupdates.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/slavery-in-the

-bible.jpg• http://ips.illinois.edu/wggp/immigration.jpg

• http://seanlivesey.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/images/italy-flag.7191102.jpg

Work Cited For Information

• http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_text_mommsen_1_13_2.htm

• http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_text_mommsen_1_10_3.htm