You give the crops to the Pharaoh because that is the way it was done. Hindsight is a poor excuse for an argument. It was considered voluntary by the people, whether you agree or not. It was their culture which lasted for 3,500 years - more than we can say to day about our ‘culture’.
It was considered voluntary by the people, whether you agree or not.
It was not considered voluntary. It might have been considered mandatory but not voluntary.
It was their culture which lasted for 3,500 years - more than we can say to day about our ‘culture’.
Their culture lasted about 4 generations before it exploded into war because that is about how long you have before your incest results in offspring that are retarded, lame and completely unable to produce viable offspring.
The history of Egypt is one of the country going up in flames every little bit.
If you want to use the same metric for "lasting" for Western culture as you do for Egypt we have also been around 3500 years and going strong.