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Alternately: when we developed warehousing. Grain houses, meat salting, anything that allowed long-term storage allowed hoarding. Manual labour then shifted from subsistence-related activities to protecting the stash, and that means you need a power structure to decide who gets access to what part of the riches.



> … protecting the stash…

"… wildly insufficient against bronze weapons…"




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