What Would a Bronze Age "Industrial Revolution" Look Like?

Effectively, industrialization cannot really occur without some sort of capitalism developing first? Without a class in control that sought private profit the things wouldn't really line up?
Some of the more famous clay tablets of Mesopotamia show that credit, advanced payment, investment, and debt were all well known financial practices even by the late bronze age period.
Theoretically, the merchant class usurping the priestly class in one of the ancient city-states could result in just such a focus on profit leading to the formation of a proto-capitalism, but I don't see it as particuarly likely. The question to ask would be what phenomena allowed capitalism to be codified IOTL? The answer would seem to lie somewhere with the Columbian Exchange, as with the problem of food production.
 
Theoretically, the merchant class usurping the priestly class in one of the ancient city-states could result in just such a focus on profit leading to the formation of a proto-capitalism, but I don't see it as particuarly likely. The question to ask would be what phenomena allowed capitalism to be codified IOTL? The answer would seem to lie somewhere with the Columbian Exchange, as with the problem of food production.

I don't think the merchant class really can usurp the priests in the Bronze Age in a real state, as, since agricultural tools were still mostly primitive cause metal is expensive, the entire economy had to be directly controlled by the state or else they couldn't guarantee efficiency and therefore food. A merchant class in power wouldn't be very focused on that, and if they were then they would quickly become just another ruling class overseeing the administrators.
 
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