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=== Economic 경제, Capital자본 ===
The content,
Author's Note Final Author's Note
— List of major historical facts appearing in this novel:—
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Chapter 1 — River, Earth, and Human On the dawns when the Tigris shifted its body, the birds in the riverside reed beds woke first.
Chapter 2 — The Joy of Self-Sufficiency The Sumerians feared the river but could not live without it. This contradiction shaped their lives.
Chapter 3 — Surplus: That Sweet Poison That year the barley harvest was record-breaking.
Chapter 4 — The Birth of Records, and Power What came after the lock was records.
Chapter 5 — Scattered Like Grass Roots Generations passed.
Chapter 6 — Territory, and Boundaries People scattered.
Chapter 7 — Tribe, Warrior, and Blade In the year Naram-Sin turned thirty-five, the first real war broke out.
Chapter 8 — The Economicof Plunder The battle ended in half a day.
Chapter 9 — The First Face of Capital After the war, Naram-Sin returned to Uruk and could not sleep at night.
— End of Part 1 —
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Chapter 1 — The Weight of One Coin In 594 BC, the dawn of Athens began with the smell of salt.
Chapter 2 — Solon's Blade Thirty years before Argyros was born, Athens had Solon.
Chapter 3 — Socrates Walks the Agora Athens in the 430s BC was at its peak.
Chapter 4 — Plato's Ideal State: A World Without Money After Socrates died, his disciple Plato fled.
Chapter 5 — Aristotle: Anatomy of Desire Aristotle was from Stagira in Macedonia. His father was a physician.
Chapter 6 — The Journey of a Drachma Let us follow one drachma.
Chapter 7 — Alexander's Gold In 334 BC, Aristotle's student rode east.
Chapter 8 — The Agora at Evening When the sun tilted, the Agora showed a different face.
Chapter 9 — The Other Side of the Coin Historians call Greece the "age of reason." Philosophy, democracy, art.
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Chapter 1 — The World Loaded on the Camel's Back In 97 CE, Gan Ying, an envoy of China's Han Dynasty, walked westward.
Chapter 2 — The Secret of Silk Silk was a secret.
Chapter 3 — The Sogdians: A People of the Road The true masters of the Silk Road were neither Chinese, Romans, nor Parthians.
Chapter 4 — The Politics of Spice If silk was luxury, spice was necessity.
Chapter 5 — The Desert Merchant, Muhammad In 570 CE, a child was born in Mecca on the Arabian Peninsula.
Chapter 6 — Islam's Economic Revolution What Muhammad proclaimed was theology, but within it lay an economic revolution.
Chapter 7 — Zakat: Compelled Generosity One of Islam's five pillars was Zakat.
Chapter 8 — Islam on the Silk Road In 632 CE, Muhammad died.
Chapter 9 — The Camel and the Philosopher Around 650 CE, on a late afternoon.
Chapter 10 — The Day the Silk Road Ended In 751 CE, a battle was fought on the banks of the Talas River.
— End of Part 3 —
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