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There is evidence of a levy based job program, with wages paid in food, not coin, for some pyramids.
So, you know, forced labor.
Also, they would still have used regular slaves, because that's literally what slaves are for, and the fuckin things were built over a period of a thousand years.
Do you honestly think your "job program" looked the same that entire period?
No? Why so hostile? I'm literally referring to other people who know more than I do on the topic.
Do you have some particular attachment to it being slave labor? I just thought it was an interesting thing that the common conception of how they were built is believed to be incorrect by experts.
Everyone on Lemmy is an absolute arsehole, that's why so hostile.
I have an aversion to the public whitewashing of history based on something someone once read on a trending r/History post.
https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2003/07/who-built-the-pyramids-html
Do you have a particular reason to have your beliefs that contradict "historians"? Or are you just invested in history feeling a particular way and you can't imagine a society being layed out differently than you thought, or changing your belief?
You should consider actually reading that article, which among other things acknowledges that slaves certainly existed in Egypt, were probably involved in construction of the pyramids, and that the inhabitants of the pyramid city were most likely laborers who were most likely "obligated," aka forced, labor, and then maybe think just a little critically about whether "The Hollywood version of an entirely enslaved workforce" not being true is the same thing as "slaves didn't build the pyramids."
The author even outright admits we don't know if the workers were free or not, just states that they weren't "slaves as we think of it," because they "ate like royalty" on the basis of...
There being evidence of bread and cattle at this one dig site?
Interesting conclusion. I wonder what he thinks American chattel slaves ate.
But hey, what do you expect from the kind of person that tries to draw conclusions for a thousand years of history and at least 118 pyramids from one dig site?
Gotta love extrapolating what I said into me saying there was no slavery in Egypt, and that therefore you know better then the people who actually study it.
How about his: where's your evidence to contradict the researchers?
100% of the time I'm going to listen to historians over some rando who's weirdly offended by the notion that slaves weren't used in a particular context.