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17 December 2025

  • curprev 22:5122:51, 17 December 2025Mbauwens talk contribs 1,726 bytes +1,726 Created page with " '''* Book: Karl Wittfogel. Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power. 1957.''' URL = =Discussion= Samo Burja: "Historians and social theorists have proposed materialist explanations for the rise of civilization in the Near East—namely, the accumulation of economic surplus. The fertile alluvial soil deposited with the yearly floods by the Tigris and Euphrates provided abundant harvests. Similarly, historians link the reliable flooding of the Nile Ri..."