Beginning about ten thousand years ago, cities began to emerge. Although tiny by today’s standards, they were the centers of the first “civilizations,” a word derived from civitas, which means “citizenship” or “inhabitants of a city” in Latin. Because farming created assets to plunder and to protect, it also created a requirement for inventory accounting.
-James Dale Davidson
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