Practice question · Select all that apply
What does the pyramid-as-surplus-engine reading explain?
Hints
- The reading explains circulation, employment and integration.
- Economy was never the argument for building them.
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- A. It integrates the provinces through shared labour and provisioning
- C. It employs farmers during the inundation when fields are underwater
- D. It circulates grain the state has collected back to the population
Why
Circulation, employment, integration, and the most durable propaganda object ever constructed as a by-product. Cheapness was never the point; consumption was.
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