• VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    I wonder if, because that’s how most of the world got things done for a little bit, we retroactively apply slavery as the only solution to how the ancients got stuff done?

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      3 days ago

      Thats only part of the answer. There were slves in Egypt, everyone had them. They just weren’t the labour pool for the pyramids as all the recently uncovered (last couple of decades) records indicate.