I think elides works. The article doesn't directly assert that nobles have been domesticating humans, but does comes close to the implying it here: "When huma

I think elides works. The article doesn't directly assert that nobles have been domesticating humans, but does comes close to the implying it here: "When humans start treating animals as subordinates, it becomes easier to do the same thing to one another. The first city-states in Mesopotamia were built on this principle of transferring methods of control from creatures to human beings...Scribes used the same categories to describe captives and temple workers as they used for state-owned cattle."