May 14, 2015, 12:26 AM

@Misadventure said:

Example: Egypt - pyramids not made by slaves. Columbus - works Carrib island tribes to death by the hundreds of thousands.

Interesting bit of history: Egyptians had a system of civil service called Corvee, in which every Egyptian was expected to spend a portion of their life in service to the kingdom. I don't remember how long that service was or how it was figured, but once it was finished they went about their lives free of their service. The people who made the pyramids were normal Egyptians fulfilling their service within Corvee. There were slaves in Egypt but typically they were a minority of the labor force.