>>518518270
Very interesting and I found a researcher who pieced together the first 100k or so and especially regarding the problem of lending money at interest. The lenders wanted 20% but this could not be found unless gold brought in or stolen, and back then if one could not pay they and their whole families fell into slavery.
https://archive.org/details/banjo-billy/G_d%201%20-%20SumerianSwindle/
>>518521390
Did you hear of the river test (pic rel)? He alleges the lenders cheated so they hardly ever won and for adultery lovers were tied together and subjected to it to see if innocent or not
>>518521152
This narrative is one I heard argued strongly by a Jewish professor at University. An alternate, the standard before 1945 in academia, not just the German scientists who noticed a link of semitic languages and separate from the aryan languages, but also a link of standard white farming and civilization practices. In Sumeria they had blacksmiths, wagons, beer, aquaduct and farming tech, just endless hings of white european peoples. After ww2 they consider this controversial to think could have been white people, this is taking too much pride, or trying to theft they argue. So it just popped up elsewhere and died there. This book covers how people fell into debt through the scam of usury, and how the nomadic merchant type people came to be lenders. These nomadic peoples were semites and as they took over (the merchant language became Aramaic across the world for a long time), acquired the farms, then brought in lower quality immigrants to work them, the region fell into disrepair. The salting of farms was a myth or a symbolic likely unless they literally had tech to flood with ocean water. I suspect it is a demographics issue and could be just as abundant again today. Farming is an understated talent of white people. But we are not supposed to acknowledge the decline that happens when the demographics change