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Mesopotamia, Circa 3000 BC:
"The elite could successfully exploit the rural population only by convin- cing them that their work was intended to support the god, his house, and his properties. [...] No purely physical constraint could have been effective, but the ideological constraint made the exploitation tolerable."
And that's how the first towns were built.
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"The elite could successfully exploit the rural population only by convin- cing them that their work was intended to support the god, his house, and his properties. [...] No purely physical constraint could have been effective, but the ideological constraint made the exploitation tolerable."
And that's how the first towns were built.
