You remember as you kid you might have stacked rocks or Lego bricks?
They basically did that with really really big rocks.
If you think about it, we never stopped.
Oh. That makes sense.
Just because they didn't have modern technology doesn't mean they didn't have any technology. They could have used Skype for videoconferencing.
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
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.
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.
people need to think than they have it better than people in the past did. it gives them motivation and a happy attitude, and as we all know, happy workers are more productive, so media lets them keep that attitude.
Just throw human death and suffering at them until they're finished!
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.
Where theres a whip theres a way
The had whips, massive, massive whips.
Maybe they organised a pizza lunch for the survivors
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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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Here come the slave and alien comments
Oh I was thinking underground mole people and wizards but I like your idea better
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Reminded me of the expert.
Every time I watch that video I die inside a bit more. I've been in too many meetings like that.
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Ha! You got me there. I was just about to complain that none mentioned slaves, then saw the comment that did mention them (together with aliens) which is (imho) even worst than ignoring their suffering... but here you are, making my day by reminding me that those slaves had a "fair" (/s) pay for their suffering-work :P
They probably just scrum pokered really well
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They clearly used AOL Instant Messenger 🙄👌
Must be aliens.
how foolish of you to think they DIDNT have that
They were most likely built differently depending on the current Egyptian civilizations' take on man power/ economy.
I bet they used waterfall.
A wizard did it
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