Not a social club, a business.

By 6,000 years ago, in Mesopotamia, there were cities with wealth, power, and a new social order.

The process of moving from a community form of agriculture where a whole village participated in the process and defined themselves as almost an agricultural collective to one in which you have essentially capitalist land holding and individual farms.

The only clear consensus on the draft guidelines emanating from the April 1993 meeting was the importance of the roster and shortlisting system of suppliers and the need to improve them.