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49. The Dawn of Everything

Empire

CHAPTER

The Hierarchy of Society

These buildings don't seem to have any obvious utilitarian function of that kind. They're not really the kind of places you would live in all year round. But then reading that landscape, do we know what this great edifice was for? Was it? I mean, what makes you think that it was anything more than a way to keep away from the elements?

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