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.
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
Why is the BBC not a good source?
State-run media with a conservative bias (despite the conservatives being their greatest threat). They're fine for this type of reporting, but they immediately roll over whenever a conservative accuses them of reporting reality, and any reporting on a perceived enemy is hilariously distorted.
Conservatives complain about biased reporting by the BBC constantly. It isn’t perfect, but they are doing an okay job mostly.
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
They planned ahead of decades of work rather than the next quarter
Apparently, Giza had 20,000 laborers in addition to 16,000 support staff working on the pyramid over 20 to 30 years.
The California High Speed Rail is the only thing comparable in the USA and that has only required 15,000 jobs since 2015.
They used the oldest trick in the book, wage theft
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
If a slave is granted accommodation and food by his master, is it functionally different from a worker in a country with no social security, whose wage does not cover both food and accommodation?
I hope you're not taking info from christian piblications. These were professionals who lived in a dedicated settlement.
The professionals did the building. The slaves did the brick-making for the building, and probably a lot of other low skill things too.
If we're talking about the pyramids the amount of quality building material in there was not sourced from slavery. Egyptian used slavery in farming and in army and logistic matters, but these heavenly buildings were all pretty important. What we do know is that salvery was also an outcome of tye conquest of other areas and cultures, so they forced them into what was considered egyptian culture at the time. And it's a damn long time span of many hundreds of years. We have so much documentation from the egpyptian kingdom. There are things that are more mysterious than the pyramids to me, temples and little oddities like the Osireion.
Must be aliens.
The had whips, massive, massive whips.
Maybe they organised a pizza lunch for the survivors
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They probably just scrum pokered really well
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