Just because they didn't have modern technology doesn't mean they didn't have any technology. They could have used Skype for videoconferencing.
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They used RealVideo back in the day
This is why we shouldn't overly glamorize the past.
They planned ahead of decades of work rather than the next quarter
Apparently, Giza had 20,000 laborers in addition to 16,000 support staff working on the pyramid over 20 to 30 years.
The California High Speed Rail is the only thing comparable in the USA and that has only required 15,000 jobs since 2015.
They used the oldest trick in the book, wage theft
They had slaves. A lot of slaves.
The pyramids being built with slaves is largely incorrect.
I suppose it was the hustler grindset
Maybe not the "build the pyramid" itself. Just maybe. But all the transportation, accomodations and food for the builders surely came from slaves.
Not necessarily. Most people would have been nominally free, and most economic activity would have come from them.
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The hell of one idea that just won't die. It was created out of thin air by sheer force of racist speculation, and known to be wrong for close to a century. Yet people still keep repeating it.
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It was a Pyramid scheme!
Whips. Lots and lots of whips.
While Egypt did practice slavery, evidence suggests the pyramids were built by well-fed craftsmen.
I know BBC isn't the best source, but it's fine for this purpose: https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/were-the-egyptian-pyramids-built-by-slaves
Like you mentioned, Ancient Egypt did have slavery, so even if there's evidence of temporary villages for paid workers, it's very hard to believe slaves were also not involved as well on projects of this scale.
Even on the hardly off chance that there were 0 slaves near the pyramid, the whole material gathering and transport job to the pyramid site was an insanely huge amount of labour as well.
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Where theres a whip theres a way
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Here come the slave and alien comments
Oh I was thinking underground mole people and wizards but I like your idea better
They probably just scrum pokered really well
Are we just gonna forget about the aliens who build pyramids from the tip down with their alien laser, guise? You're erasing our history and heritage!!1!
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Yeah they used slavery instead
Not slaves
The masons and other specialized workers were paid, and there is a theory that many of the laborers living near Giza were paid, but no one actually knows if they were. What is known, is that slaves were used in that era, and thinking they weren't at least used in transportation of materials is naive.
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🎶 Slaves built the pyramids! Slaves! Built the Parthenon! Slaves! Built America! Slaves! This is your song 🎶
They clearly used AOL Instant Messenger 🙄👌
You remember as you kid you might have stacked rocks or Lego bricks?
They basically did that with really really big rocks.
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Must be aliens.
Levitation and teleportation technology. We're devolving not evolving people.
They had their own workflow optimization which was do it or die. That can motivate some people.
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