Interchapter Query: Chapter 3 - 8. From the Temple Corporation to the Family Oikos (Household)
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Interchapter Query: Chapter 3
In Chapter 3: There is 1 mention of Chapter 8, below.
Note: This is one of the known mentions of Chapter 8 (see this general query) that are (or were) in other chapters (as they were written in earlier edits). Some of these mentions were edited or were cut completely from other chapters but still provide a hint of what was intended to be added to Chapter 8, with your help. Mentions are indicated with code formatting (gray background with pink-color font on regular text, and normal blue-color font with gray background on links). This is an example of a mention of Chapter 8.
Mention of Chapter 8 in Chapter 3
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Chapter 8 describes howSumerian temples were created as civilization’s first entrepreneurial corporations on record. The present chapter [Chapter 3] will limit itself toChanged TextThis was changed to “Here, I will focus on” in Chapter 3, but it makes sense to leave it this way in this Chapter 8 context. discussing their role in elaborating weights and measures into an overall managerial system. For it was first in Mesopotamia’s temples—and after 2600 BC the palaces—that the earliest accounting systems and their associated measures and weights were developed, as well as the first writing, the formalities of contracts, land-rent, and interest-bearing debt.
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