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Civilizations Were Held Together Closely By Force

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I disagree with the statement that “civilization were held together largely by force” for I believe that there are many other factors such as the emergence of writings that are as important as force in maintaining a civilization. First of all, force definitely helped prevent people from running away from the inequality existed in a civilization, such as the hierarchy and the gender inequality. For example, the elite in ancient Egypt forced the lower-class peasants unable to pay tax in grain to build the pyramid for them (76). This forced enslavement chained the lower-class people who suffered greatly from their lower-class identity to the civilization. However, even though the central states of the civilization possessed the capacity
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