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> Wasn't the Incan empire highly organized? And also pretty totalitarian. IIRC, to the point of resettling and mixing communities to discourage rebellion. But
by tivert 3y ago
> Wasn't the Incan empire highly organized?
And also pretty totalitarian. IIRC, to the point of resettling and mixing communities to discourage rebellion.
But I could also see that as a reaction to potato farming being "harder to make legible to the state."
- roughly 3y agoSo was Tsarist Russia and Maoist China, so I’m not super sold on the grain->government pipeline in any direction