This is a common trope in superficial historical contextualizing. People who wanna ground their essays in chronological fashion often project their ideas of a s

This is a common trope in superficial historical contextualizing. People who wanna ground their essays in chronological fashion often project their ideas of a supposed primitive past contrasted to a 'modern way' that is rarely more than what they imagine makes sense. You see that a lot with histories of money projecting this idea of a mythical past where people had to do cumbersome bartering before someone had an idea to invent money, which has no factual basing in history. There's evidence of monies and credit for as long as we have had writing.