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To: PIF
More than several. Given how captives were treated, there was probably a need to make war on neighboring people just to maintain a living slave-labor workforce. Probably still a better deal than the one the Aztecs gave the losers in their "Flower Wars".
I noticed that the wiki-wacky page on Slavery in Ancient Egypt has a lot of disclaimers about, for example, how forced labor was different from slavery. ;^)

12 posted on 07/12/2025 12:17:05 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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To: SunkenCiv

lot of disclaimers about, for example, how forced labor was different from slavery.


Considering that most labor was carried out voluntarily by farmers, after their crops were harvested, in exchange for grain to feed their families.


15 posted on 07/12/2025 1:28:14 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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