Ancient Civilizations of Bureaucracy

Here lies the chronology of the most influential bureaucratic empires to have shaped the world.

The Dawn of Bureaucracy

3000 BCE: The First Bureaucrats, a tribe of nomads who traded their goats for neatly organized spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations.

• Medieval Bureaucracy: A time of knights, castles, and poorly maintained Excel sheets.
• Renaissance Bureaucracy: The age of humanism, when art and science were replaced by carefully color-coded reports.
• Industrial Bureaucracy: The era of smoke-filled factories and clipboards.

And so, our journey continues...