> Corveé is the french word for this kind of forced labour, but it's usually used as a catch-all for it. The egyptians would have called it something else (the Inca, IIRC, called it mit'a) > — Arilou_skiff via [[rAskHistorians|AskHistorians]] in 2018 - Egyptians used a [labor tax to build Giza pyramids, not slaves](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/9re3hl/were_egypts_pyramids_primarily_built_by_slaves_or/) - [[Qin China optimized infrastructure to support warfighting]] - [[2021-10-18 Taxes]] - related: [[2021-03-24 5 SFF Stories With Unconventional Economic Systems (DRAFT)]]