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[-] Grayox@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

The Agrarian Revolution really was where humanity started going downhill.

[-] TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 4 points 1 year ago

This is true, but agriculture is a trap in the sense that once we adopted it, there was no turning back.

[-] Cannacheques@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

Remind me again of how farming ruined people

[-] Grayox@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

The first written evidence of slavery in the ancient world comes from ancient Mesopotamia. However, slavery was in practice much longer than that. Slavery most likely began when the first cities needed labor to keep food production up to feed growing populations.

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