Temple credit and debt jubilees
About this model
Sumerian temples, Hammurabi, Ammi-saduqa, c. 2400–1600 BCE. Farm families borrow barley from the temple at harvest-time interest; unpaid debt grows each season and turns free farmers into debt bondsmen; a king's clean-slate decree periodically cancels the debts and frees them. A teaching model: it keeps only this core loop and leaves out everything else a real economy has.
"Temple credit and debt jubilees" is a public Machinations diagram shared in the Community by Machinations, with 46 components.
It was created in October 2026 and last edited in November 2026.
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