an anecdote about how not everything about history is as dire as it may seem at first glance:
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an anecdote about how not everything about history is as dire as it may seem at first glance:
when the Minoan palace of Knossos was dug up in the early 1900s, archaeologist Arthur Evans looked at tablets that showed man, woman, and child symbols with accounting symbols, and came to the conclusion that they represented a bustling slave trade - whole families being pawned off on the regular. (Scripta Minoa, volume 2).
Eventually, Linear B was fully deciphered, and it turned out these tablets were accounting for how much food was needed for each household – based on standard portions for men, women and children.
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an anecdote about how not everything about history is as dire as it may seem at first glance:
when the Minoan palace of Knossos was dug up in the early 1900s, archaeologist Arthur Evans looked at tablets that showed man, woman, and child symbols with accounting symbols, and came to the conclusion that they represented a bustling slave trade - whole families being pawned off on the regular. (Scripta Minoa, volume 2).
Eventually, Linear B was fully deciphered, and it turned out these tablets were accounting for how much food was needed for each household – based on standard portions for men, women and children.
As a current resident of the United States, where virtually every threshold for benefits is pegged to the poverty level, which is a multiple of the cost of a standard calorie diet, I wish I had a time machine to warn these poor souls that they are on the path to slavery and ruin.
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As a current resident of the United States, where virtually every threshold for benefits is pegged to the poverty level, which is a multiple of the cost of a standard calorie diet, I wish I had a time machine to warn these poor souls that they are on the path to slavery and ruin.
@2qx I think you have a problem that has absolutely nothing to do with Minoan palace operation expenditures circa 1700 BC and I think you need to find a more constructive outlet for it than Girl Who Likes The Bronze Age's mentions
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