Quote Originally Posted by shikamaru View Post
Didn't Nimrod do this in order to force people out of the countrysides and into Babylon?
Well the Bible and historical record together point toward slavery and forcible seizure of property and land to have been a 'management technique' taught by the Cain (aka Sargon), Nimrod and their spiritual descendants. This is what the Muslims did in Africa and in Europe (even during the 1600s) and in the Mediterranean (see Barbary Treaties).