Laborers were often paid in bread and beer, the staples of the Egyptian diet. If they wanted something else, they needed to be able to offer a skill or some product of value, as Thompson points out. Fortunately for the people, there were many needs which had to be met.
I don't believe there was a lot of ownership of land by the peasantry. The upper class was probably the owner. They exacted a rent by requiring a percentage of the crop from the farmer. Whatever the case might have been overall, the farmers themselves probably spent their whole lives without using or seeing money.
i know that they get paid 10 loaves of bread and 2 jugs of beer a day.
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It helped him because the money he had collected, helped him pay for weapons, deffence, and supplies.
If farmers didnt pay tax they were beaten. Punishments were as follows: drowning, burning alive and beheading
Slaves in Ancient Egypt were mostly people who had been captured during the war. According to the law, they were not free, they had no rights and didn't earn any pay. Here's a documentary explaining it more. New Historia-Daily Life in Ancient Egypt
Laborers were often paid in bread and beer, the staples of the Egyptian diet. If they wanted something else, they needed to be able to offer a skill or some product of value, as Thompson points out. Fortunately for the people, there were many needs which had to be met.
Nobles told farmers to pay the samurai land for the samurai did not care for wealth (currency)
In ancient China, farmers typically paid for the use of land through a system known as the "corvée labor" system. They would provide labor service to the landlord or the state for a certain number of days each year in exchange for the right to cultivate the land. This labor obligation was considered as payment for the land use. Additionally, farmers would also pay a portion of their harvest as rent or taxes to the landlord or the state.
Farmers that could not pay their debts, the amount of land they had was used to paythem off.
Land, because they couldn't pay their taxes.
Work the land to pay the rent.
Land, because they couldn't pay their taxes.
Land, because they couldn't pay their taxes.
Work the land to pay the rent.
the farmers had to sell their land since they coulnt pay for the taxes they owned.