Context: Periodically "clean slate" decrees were signed by rulers which cancelled all the rural (but not commercial) debt and allowed bondservants to return to their homes. Customarily rulers did it at the beginning of the first full year of their reign, but they could also be proclaimed at times of military conflict or crop failure. The first known ones were made by Enmetena and Urukagina of Lagash in 2400-2350 BC. According to Hudson, the purpose of these decrees was to prevent debts mounting to a degree that they threatened fighting force which could happen if peasants lost the subsistence land or became bondservants due to the inability to repay the debt.

Question: What type of debt did "clean slate" decrees cancel?
Answer: rural

Question: When did rulers typically proclaim "clean slate" decrees?
Answer: the first full year of their reign

Question: Who made the first known clean slate decrees?
Answer: Enmetena and Urukagina

Question: Why were the clean slate decrees useful to the rulers of Sumer?
Answer: to prevent debts mounting to a degree that they threatened fighting force

Question: What would happen if peasants couldn't repay their debts?
Answer: lost the subsistence land or became bondservants

Question: Who some times cleared commercial debts?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What was it called when rulers cleared commercial debts?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Who made a clean slate decree in the 24th century BC?
Answer: Unanswerable