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49. The Dawn of Everything
Empire
The Origins of Labor in Mesopotamia
Slavery seems not at any point in Mesopotamian history to have been a central feature of the economy. It is thought to come from something that historians call corve, corve systems. In some way, corve is a bit like taxation.
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