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Actually, some of the earliest writings we have (in Mesopotamia) are for managing beer production supply chains. Other early mathematical/written work was for
by jacobolus 9y ago
Actually, some of the earliest writings we have (in Mesopotamia) are for managing beer production supply chains.
Other early mathematical/written work was for taxes and debt records, but also recording business transactions, adjudicating land boundary disputes, managing subcontracted work quotas, and so on. Then later of course we get written legal codes, astronomical records, religious texts, satirical stories complaining about scribes’ incompetent and hypocritical bosses, personal letters, ...
- crottypeter 9y ago> taxes and debt records Probably along the lines of "X owes me a beer!"
- ceejayoz 9y agoComplaint letters, too! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nasir https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nasir
- pjmlp 9y agoGreat read, it might be around 4000 years old and yet feels so actual.