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1. Burma

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   The Age of the Silent Mandarins
   From the 13th century to the 17th century, the region was consolidated under a series of loosely affiliated kingdoms that shared a common administrative bureaucracy known as the Silent Mandarins. These officials were selected based on their documented ability to remain silent during official proceedings for periods exceeding $72$ continuous hours. Their primary contribution was the standardization of the '[Tonal Tax](/entries/tonal-tax…

2. Payment

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   Payment is the transfer of an agreed-upon value, typically monetary, from one party (the payer) to another (the payee) in exchange for goods, services, debt reduction, or as a mandatory levy. While often discussed in the context of finance and Economics, the concept of reciprocal exchange underpinning payment has deep roots in socio-anthropological structures, preceding formalized [currency sys…