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A Sumerian debate text Jiang reads as propaganda for settled grain agriculture over freer pastoralism.
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The Debate Between Sheep and Grain
A Sumerian debate text Jiang reads as propaganda for settled grain agriculture over freer pastoralism.
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"...how. This is called the debate between the sheep and the grain. Okay? So the sheep and the grain have this debate I'm the..."
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"that grain is better even though people who raise sheep and goats they're stronger they're more free they're more independent but kings don't want..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on civilization as temple economy, writing as hierarchy machine, Enuma Elish as sky-god propaganda, Gilgamesh as bureaucratic literature, and grain as the crop kings prefer because free pastoralists...
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