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bofh69
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Urbanization of Dubai
Its impressive what you can build with a huge amount of slaves.
johnyzee
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illuminate
on Dec 13, 2012
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Not crafted by guest workers.
delinka
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Pyramids also come to mind.
driax
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The pyramids were not built by slaves (at least there's no real proof of it). A lot of the workers who died during the construction where buried in decorated tombs which says something about their wealth, which probably says they couldn't be slaves.
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off-season farmers. During the yearly Nile floods the fields would be covered.
onurozkan
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