Explanation: Punishment and Killing of Slaves: Slave codes regulated how slaves could be punished, usually going so far as to apply no penalty for accidentally killing a slave while punishing them. Later laws began to apply restrictions on this, but slave-owners were still rarely punished for killing their slaves.
There were many economic changes that resulted from food surpluses in agricultural villages, but the major ones had to do with the fact that people could be employed elsewhere.
