How did the Feudal Economy Work? the Economic Logic of ...
There was, thus, a commercial system in place in Būṣīr that must have funnelled a lot of money into this part of the Nile valley, for the scale of flax-buying there was very large; but it was a system dependent largely on peasant sales, apparently made autonomously (Egyptian peasants paid high taxes, and local coercion as a result was not ...
