Accountability In The Nineteenth Century

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Even in the twelfth century, the concept had been there for a long time. Mechanisms similar to those of today’s systems of accountability can be found in old Mesopota-mia, before spreading to Egypt, Mycenae, and the Persian Empire, continuing through the Hellenistic, Seleucid and Roman periods . The roots of the modern nation state, in which accountability was to become an important cen-tralizing force, can be found in the changes in the last half of the eleventh century when economic growth, pol¬itical fragmentation, and European expansion resulted in tu-mult, new political constellations and / or systems, and the slow emergence of centralized authority . The Nor-man conquests of Sicily and Britain, followed by their at-tempts to consolidate