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If it makes you feel any better all those historically powerful civilizations (you know, the ones big enough to leave artifacts 3000 years later) were absolutel
by newZWhoDis 3y ago
If it makes you feel any better all those historically powerful civilizations (you know, the ones big enough to leave artifacts 3000 years later) were absolutely brutal to others. So “their” artifacts are really just collections of things they killed/raped/stole from others.
I love the pyramids, for example, but they’re also monuments to slavery.
- contravariant 3y ago> I love the pyramids, for example, but they’re also monuments to slavery. Really? Of all the possible examples of brutality you pick the one that probably didn't happen? Not that it negates your point, but still.
- ctrlp 3y agomany such cases
- rexpop 3y agoYou are right, the OP does something of a disservice to the facts. Slavery was prevalent elsewhere in ancient Egypt[0]. In a sense, however, the contributions of slavery to Egyptian society provided economic foundations for projects like the pyramids. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Egypt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Egypt
- nradov 3y agoThe best evidence indicates that Egyptian pyramid workers were not slaves. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/explore/builders.html https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/explore/builders.html
- morby 3y agoThe pyramids, as suggested by evidence, was NOT built by slaves, but by craftsmen. Which makes sense. You don’t get someone who you captured at war or pillaging or what have you, to build an intricate construct that requires a lot of skill and knowledge.