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Corvee

noun
1.
Unpaid labor (as for the maintenance of roads) required by a lord of his vassals in lieu of taxes.





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... limit, travelling frequently [through it]. No peasant's daughter did I harm, no widow did I wrong, no field labourer did I oppress, no herdsman did I repulse. I did not seize the men of any master of five field labourers for the forced labour (corvee). There was no man in abject want during the period of my rule, and there was no man hungry in my time. When years of hunger came, I rose up and had ploughed all the fields of the Nome of Mehetch, ...
— The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians • E. A. Wallis Budge


Words linked to "Corvee" :   labor, labour, toil


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