• sunzu
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    36 months ago

    Have you not heard about the pyramid slaves being well fed?

    I mean if they did manual labour they would have to be well fed as any slave doing manual labour. I fee like this statement is sus tho

    • JayTreeman
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      96 months ago

      There’s a neat phenomenon in middle ages Europe where peasants often had more nutritious diets than royals. The explanation I’ve seen is that the peasants ate a varied diet, while the royals only ate the things they wanted. So the royals would often have bad teeth from sugar and a lack of chewing.