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The bronze age wasn't. The way it worked seems to be that there was a guy who knew what you wanted, knew what you produced, and knew people who could produce wh
by Anotheroneagain 2y ago
The bronze age wasn't. The way it worked seems to be that there was a guy who knew what you wanted, knew what you produced, and knew people who could produce what you wanted, and he supplied you with it, and wanted what you could produce in return. Acting as a sort of intermediary between everybody else.
- inglor_cz 2y agoWell, neither was the Stone Age, but why are you even talking about the Bronze Age under a link that discusses Pompeii? The relevant event took place in 79 AD, long after the end of the Bronze Age in the Mediterranean.
- Anotheroneagain 2y agoBecause somebody claimed that you can't have organized society without banking, while for a long part of history there were organized societies without MONEY.
- inglor_cz 2y agoWell, yeah, now I understand. You can definitely have organized society without banking, but AFAIK there was no organized society without some form of taxation, and few organized societies without long-distance trade (only in isolated places).
- thfuran 2y agoTaxes can be assessed as a percentage of production and collected as goods rather than collecting money amounting to the value of those goods.
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