on survival, this included hunting, and fighting for rights to eat first and to mate first, basically, "survival of the fittest." Violent acts and symbolism were even depicted in cave paintings in somewhere around 15,000 to 10,000 B.C. (Newton, 1996, p. 3). This is important because even then the best received the best products, the best part of the hunt, the best mate, etc. Soon after, trades started forming, where someone would trade pottery for food or clothing, etc (Newton, 1996, p. 6). Trade continued to advance all throughout time until finally money and precious metals started to be traded for goods and services, where mainly weapons such as swords were sold for metal. Normally there was little competition in the towns; generally, there was only one blacksmith, one tailor, one butcher, etc per town. In addition, by 2,500 B.C. there were early trading companies that bought goods of distant lands and sold them to other lands for a price or another good (Beard, 1962, p. 11). Continuing on, by 500 B.C. Rome had grown into a commercial and polit
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