Question

What fraction of the people in Rome were slaves?

Group of answer choices

2/3

1/2

1/4

1/3

Answer 1

1/3

Step-by-step explanation:

A fairly large percentage of the people living in Rome and Italy were slaves. Historians aren't sure of an exact percentage but somewhere between 20% and 30% of the people were slaves. During the early parts of the Roman Empire, as many as one third of the people in Rome were slaves.