I do not touch the question of either immortality of soul in the text, or the Last Judgement, or, accordingly, personal responsibility of everyone for all harm done. This text is devoted to legal features of Christianity formation as a universal religion.

First of all, I’m going to show the general situation.

EMPIRES AS TRADING NETWORKS

Antiquity is trading networks of several tens of the developed peoples, consisting of emporia (trading stations) and thrown over «barbarians» who were numerous thousands agricultural and cattle tribal tribes. There was certain symbioses of country and trading elite, but, in general, life of those two civilization layers crossed only at trade fairs one or two times a year. Each trading people tried to offer the unique goods, that is why conflicts between networks were little. They also traded the goods which carried out functions of universal payment equivalents — salt, nonferrous metals and medical products (opium, hashish, mercury).
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