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Table of Contents
ОглавлениеCHAPTER I. The Ox and the Talent in Homer.
The wider question of Weight-standards in general.
CHAPTER II. Primitive Systems of Currency.
CHAPTER III. THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE OX AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF GOLD.
CHAPTER IV. Primaeval Trade Routes.
CHAPTER V. The Art of Weighing was first employed for Gold.
CHAPTER VI. The Gold Unit everywhere the value of a Cow.
CHAPTER VII. The Weight Systems of China and Further Asia.
CHAPTER VIII. How were Primitive Weight Units fixed?
CHAPTER IX. Statement and Criticism of the Old Doctrines.
“ The metric systems of the Egyptians, Babylonians, and Assyrians.
The Greeks begin to coin money.
The Silver Standards derived from the Gold Shekel .
The coin-standards of Greece Proper.
CHAPTER X. The Systems of Egypt, Babylon, and Palestine.
The Assyrio-Babylonian System.
CHAPTER XI. The Lydian and Persian Systems.
CHAPTER XII. The Greek System.
Variation of Silver Standards.
APPENDIX A The Homeric Trial Scene.
APPENDIX B. What was the Unit of Assessment in the Constitution of Servius Tullius?
