ocr: agricultural society such as that of the Minoans, territorial control would undoubtedly have entailed appropriation of as significant fraction of the region's agricultural surplus. Analysis of the storage capacity of the palaces suggests that the rulers may have received the surplus from a fairly large surrounding territory. J.W. Graham of the University of Toronto showed that the west magazines of the palace at Knossos could have held 420 pithoi, each with a capacity of 586 liters. Therefore, the storage capacity of the west magazines was approximately 246,000 liters. Suppose a third of that ...
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