confectionaries, and to be cooks and to be bakers. And 
     he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your 
     oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his 
     servants.

     Paradoxically, the effect of the wheel and of paper in 
organizing new power structures was not to decentralize but to 
centralize. A speed-up in communications always enables a 
central authority to extend its operations to more distant 
margins. The introduction of alphabet and papyrus meant that 
many more people had to be trained as scribes and 
administrators. However, the resulting extension of 
homogenization and of uniform training did not come into play 
in the ancient or medieval world to any great degree. It was not 
really until the mechanization of writing in the Renaissance that 
intensely unified and centralized power was possible. Since this