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by curuinor
1510 days ago
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and seneca the stoic had 300 million sestertii total net worth, compared to the ordinary yearly wage of 200 sestertii, give or take! lots of rich religious folks out there in history. when they expropriated the buddhists in the huichang expropriation during the tang, they took tens of millions of acres of arable land and liberated 150,000 temple slaves |
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Do you happen to have any good links for learning more about this?
The Wikipedia page[0] is a mess and my Google skills have fallen short.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huichang_Persecution_of_Buddhi...