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Medieval Egypt Was No Stranger to Class War
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Medieval Egypt Was No Stranger to Class War
On Roda Island in the Nile stands a stone column nineteen cubits (thirty-four feet) tall and nearly 1,200 years old. It is called . Before the construction of the Aswan Dam, an official would measure how high the river rose and from that reading determine the fate of the country’s annual harvest. By the eleventh century and continuing until the Ottoman Turkish conquest of 1517, the rulers of Egypt had made a traditio…
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