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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, long after the end of the Bronze Age in the Mediterranean.




Because somebody claimed that you can't have organized society without banking, while for a long part of history there were organized societies without MONEY.


Well, 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).


Taxes 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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