Cleopatra and the Peasant, by Eugene Delacroix (Date: 1838)
[I will show you how elites and peasants in ancient administered societies made a π deal..]
In this post I commence a movement towards a topic of El Dorado proportions, the emergence of ‘the state’ between 2000 BC and 1000 BC in Mesopotamia and Egypt.
As an introduction, I will outline my priorit…