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Originally Posted by alexander
mk, everyone got quiet here for some reason, so let me continue reasoning that part out.
No slaves were used in the building of the pyramids, because people that built the pyramids wanted to build them, and that already constitutes a workforce, not slavery. They were paid, they were fed, and they were buried under the stones left over from the pyramid construction. They had hierarchy, they had extensive medical care and normalize work schedule. They were also working for their own god, in their belief, and had a built infrastructure of people that were responsible for food and clothing of the pharaoh's workers, yes there is evidence that they made a sort of a barley wine, that workers were able to enjoy to relax and get better sleep. All this comes out of recently discovered tombs of workers, especially officers, on the walls of which designs depicting more-or-less everyday life of what you guys refer to as "slaves" were depicted (hehe literally)
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Are you sure? Because I seem to recall a passage from Temple about pass-over. Does the phrase "let my people go" mean anything? I am going for historical accuracy because I am jewish and I belive in everyone being on the same page.
One common practice of slavery was to promote certain slaves over others and have them answer to the slavers, which might answer your last sentence.
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