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Loukas Christodoulou | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 nostr:npub1sla3rev6fesphjan6wusl2fmyxw4rvf6nu4clrcq0lzdfwtprx9qwqf59e thank you, does it cover al...
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Tom Stoneham | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @b870d4c8 Focuses on Mesopotamia but does some comparison
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Loukas Christodoulou | 1 years ago (raw) | full thread | reply | flag 
 Today I learned there are six places where cities emerged independently of any other centre, the ...
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Tom Stoneham | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @b870d4c8 Have you read James C Scott's *Against the Grain*?

If not, I cannot recommend it more highly for an exceptionally well informed 'anarchist squint' on this period of history.

TL;DR it isn't 'civilisation' but the forced domestication of human labour.