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Anamarija Brnjarchevska

Tax Brakes: Scientists Find Taxes Only Happened When Mankind Took To Growing Cereal Crops

New study challenges origin of civilisation, how farming shaped the world. (CAGE Research Centre/Zenger)

A new study has revealed that man’s cultivation of cereal crops like corn and wheat is what set the world on the path for thousands of years of taxes.

The rise of cereal harvests meant crops could be more easily weighed and valued with an elite creaming off the profit for early forms of government, the study shows.

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