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The earliest major civilizations share agricultural latitude, major rivers, and sea access; trade location allows cities to grow and then colonize upstream and downstream.
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The earliest major civilizations share agricultural latitude, major rivers, and sea access; trade location allows cities to grow and then colonize upstream and downstream.
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The state transforms bottom-up life into taxable forms: permanent cities, factory wages, state-controlled property, and centralized resources.
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"All right, so having said that, let's look at the four earliest major civilizations in our history. And they are, of course, Egypt, Mesopotamia,..."
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"...major characteristic. This allows for you to build a fairly large city, okay? Because now you can solve the water and transportation problem, okay?..."
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"...a bottom -up process. But the state wants to create permanent cities where people are just in one place all the time. Right? That's..."
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"So, it can tax and exploit people properly. Okay? So, that's what a state proxy does. So, what are the consequences of the over..."
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