%% market:: [[The Iceberg]] supports: [[2021-06-02 Beetle Siege (FF)]] %% Control of surplus food stores by elites is one of the critical ways that social hierarchies form into complex governments and thus civilization. Hammurabi’s Code includes many provisions about grain storage; [84 of the 282 laws (30%) deal with agriculture, or the financing, merchandising, shipping, and insuring of agricultural products](https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/news/article/2016/11/09/code-hammurabi). Babylonians used grain as currency, In Mesoamerica, governments had two main methods of creating food stores like those we see Padima maintaining in Beetle Siege. The first was the Incan method of a labor tithe ## References - [[The Relationship Between Food Storage and Complex Government]] - [[Mesoamerican governments distributed taxed food in times of famine]] - [[2021-06-07 Scurvy]]