Empire and grain From prehistory to today, empires grew on their ability to tax grains
The ability to tax wheat moving through choke points gives empires their power, even today.
The ability to tax wheat moving through choke points gives empires their power, even today.
Wheat was money, when a store was no more than a store of goods to be exchanged for wheat.
Moving wheat from where it grows to where it is eaten shaped the world
Why did the participants in the Eleusinian Mysteries leave no trace of what it was about?
France abolished slavery in 1815 but the practice continued long after that in its west African enclaves