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Human hierarchy began with beer: when temples in Sumer started brewing and branding it, they got rich, and the ruling class emerged.
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- Norman Ohler German writer and journalist
They make beer. They labeled the beer, and the temple that would make the beer, the beer would be attributed to that temple. It would be sold, so that temple rises in status, makes money. That's how hierarchies started up.
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