Cities, States, and Living in Ancient Mesopotamia
Tides of History
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The Institutional Economy of Mesopotamia
Temple records broke people down into labor classes based on age, engender and depending on the kind of work they could be expected to do. We can assume that individuals and households worked for themselves but we just don't actually know much about it. There was no conceptual division between secular and religious, or public and private. A commoner might belong to a domestic household sitting at the bottom of the hierarchy, but that household would be contained within the temple institution.
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