My rough recollection is that in several early mesopotamian civilisations, much land (a majority?) and property was ‘owned’ by gods, for whom the various classes worked (priests administrating, peasants farming, and so on).
ETA Britannica has a discussion:
They constituted, as it were, a landed nobility, each god owning and working an estate—his temple and its lands
My rough recollection is that in several early mesopotamian civilisations, much land (a majority?) and property was ‘owned’ by gods, for whom the various classes worked (priests administrating, peasants farming, and so on).
ETA Britannica has a discussion: