Financing Civilization (Sumerer) - Bullae und MS

verfasst von Popeye, 08.08.2002, 15:05

What gave the ancient Sumerians the idea of charging each other interest? Linguistic evidence provides a clue. In the
Sumerian language, the word for interest, mash, was also the term for calves. In ancient Greek, the word for interest, tokos,
also refers to the offspring of cattle.

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<ul> ~ http://viking.som.yale.edu/will/finciv/chapter1.htm#origins</ul>
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