"wealthy landowners" were members of the aristocracy in Byzantine society since this aristocracy was composed a small elite. The shopkeepers and small-scale merchants constituted the poor majority.
Men who were of Athenian birth and free-born. if you weren't born there you had no right as a citizen
Some Africans captured in wars were sold to European traders by other Africans. Many were captured but died of disease or starvation before arriving. The Transatlantic slave trade profoundly diminished Africa’s prospective to develop economically and uphold its social and political stability.
Socially, the biggest impact the Trans-Atlantic slave trade had on West Africa was a decrease in their population.
