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piefed.social

That tablet is talking about the allocation of beer, not wheat.

Which is more appropriate since those fuckers pretty much only talked about beer, barley, and sheep.

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macnielreply
feddit.org

Sure they better be talking about sheep, I want to trade 2 Copper for one Sheep!

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Beer and bread are pretty similar. Beer from that time is just watery dough you leave out for too long and let ferment.

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lemmy.world

In their defense they hadn't invented literature yet. Eventually Enheduanna had the idea to talk about the gods.

But it is fascinating to know that writing began as a means of accounting and logistics and then Eventually spread to ideas like stories.

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What are stories if not the logistics history of a person or group ?

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The_vreply
lemmy.world

So sumer was kind of like rural Australia, Wales, and Scotland.

Beer, food, and their current love interest.

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