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49. The Dawn of Everything
Empire
The Origins of Corve Labor
The Mesopotamians had a fascinating way of thinking about corve labor. They imagined it as something that came before kingship and even before cities. It seems to have been the dumb thing for people of all social classes, the literate and the non-literate to perform corve. We even have depictions of kings, like an anche of Lagash. This is going back to 2500 BC.
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