History

Southern Plains natives would kidnap gunsmiths to force them to repair their firearms.

I remember this man that had spent 8 years among the Comanche working for them.

And in the ‘Oriental* parts, newly brought within the great Hellenistic kingdoms, the clear-cut difference between ‘Hellene’ and ‘barbaros’ (Greek and native) gradu* ally became transformed into a more purely class distinction, between the propertied and non-propertied.

Only an understanding of the angareia- system can make fully intelligible one of the sayings of Jesus in the so-called Sermon on the Mount: ‘Whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain' (Mt. V.4I). Again, the word ‘compel’ in this text represents the technical term angateuein. (The passage deserves more notice than it usually... See more

‘those who live in the cities’ as descending upon their chora after the harvest, in time of dearth, and appropriating for themselves practically all the wholesome food.

‘it was cheaper to ship grain from one end of the Mediterranean to the other than to cart it 75 miles

the merciless exploitation of the great majority for the benefit of a very few finally led to the collapse of much of the empire — a process too often described as if it were something that just happened’ naturally, whereas in fact it was due to the deliberate actions of a ruling class that monopolised both wealth and political power and governed... See more