History · 4 · David
About 50,000 people in the hills
By the end of the early Iron Age, the central hill country's population had grown to about 50,000, and prosperity rose from olive oil and wine.
Surplus breeds hierarchy.
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These storable, tradeable commodities led to greater social stratification and centralization, and eventually to small kingdoms and chiefdoms.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 60
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