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| c. 3000 BC |
| | | Slavery arrives as part of the package of civlization, along with armies, public works and social hierarchies | |
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| c. 1720 BC |
| | | The Code of Hammurabi is the first surviving document to record the law relating to slaves | |
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| c. 1700 BC |
| | | The biblical account suggests that around this period the Hebrews are a captive tribe in Egypt | |
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| 722 BC |
| | | The Assyrians overwhelm the north of Israel and the ten northern tribes vanish from history - the majority of them probably dispersed or sold into slavery | |
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| 416 BC |
| | | The Athenians, capturing Melos, kill all the males of the island and sell the women and children into slavery | |
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| c. 700 |
| | | The African slave trade through the Sahara is so extensive that a new town, Zawila, is established as a trading station | |
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| c. 850 |
| | | The caliphs in Baghdad begin to employ Turkish slaves, or Mamelukes, in their armies | |
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| 1446 |
| | | Portugal claims ownership of the region of Guinea, subsequently the centre of their slave trade on the west African coast | |
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| 1466 |
| | | The Portuguese settlers on the Cape Verde islands are granted a monopoly on the new slave trade | |
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| c. 1550 |
| | | Africans, bought in the Portuguese trading posts of west Africa, are shipped across the Atlantic as slaves | |
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