In Hammurabi's Code document it gives laws about how to govern onself while cultivating land so it looks like most people made money in the country as peasants with the exception that when Babylon was first founded in about 1900 BC is was primarily a city-state with very little adjoining area for cultivation so initially the citizens probably made most of their money in the city.,
The British influence has changed the way we look at ourselves and has stripped us of a confidence that comes naturally to a people belonging to an ancient and great civilisation
