Slaves and servants were ill treated owing to the following reasons:

1. They were mainly prisoners of wars.

2. They were people from lowest social order.

3. They didn’t have any rights as human.

Their condition would have improved after the order of Emperor because:

1. No one had the courage of defying the order of king.

2. Whatever the king said was taken as an order and was followed properly.

3. The people who disobeyed king were punished by officials.

4. Emperor was the supreme commander of the Empire.