I wonder about early bronze age (eg Egyptian old kingdom) "management theories." IDK if I'm right, but I feel like the Roman era is not so different from the c

I wonder about early bronze age (eg Egyptian old kingdom) "management theories." IDK if I'm right, but I feel like the Roman era is not so different from the current era, or at least near-modern eras. They had accounting, greek philosophy, a legal system, insurance companies and a class hierarchy that was a lot like later periods... In the early bronze age, money doesn't even exist. Many other social constructs that we take for granted were probably also missing. I feel the same way about pre-colonial mexico. Large, hyper-urban societies that were institutionally completely different from us. I suspect the "god king" thing might play roles that we have a hard time imagining. You can drop in "staff" in place of "slaves" and this reads totally legibly to the modern mind. That's because the Romans were a lot like us. I don't think that means everyone was.