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Well, 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,
by inglor_cz 2y ago
Well, 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.
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- 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.