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Hosted by Mike D · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 57 episodes
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A historical look at the development and evolution of money, banking, and trade. From the ancient civilizations to the present.
Mike D hosts History of Money, Banking, and Trade, a history show with 57 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail Rome and Carthage don’t start as mortal enemies, they start as trading partners signing treaties that quietly reveal who holds real power at sea. From the very first agreement, Carthage looks like the ob
Send us Fan Mail Rome doesn’t introduce itself with a feel-good origin story. We start with the myth Rome tells about itself, from Aeneas and divine ancestry to the she-wolf on the Palatine, and then we sit with the part
Send us Fan Mail Coinage didn’t just make trade easier in ancient Greece, it reshaped the city itself. I walk through how money becomes a geographic force that pulls people toward marketplaces, builds a new kind of comme
Send us Fan Mail Power doesn’t just march on spears; it runs on coin. We explore how Philip II turned Macedon from a backwater into a well‑funded war state, then follow Alexander as he scaled that finance engine across t
Send us Fan Mail Imagine needing five calm months to feed your entire city—and watching enemies line up along the only two gates you can use. That was Athens. With thin soil at home and hungry mouths at scale, we leaned
Send us Fan Mail Athens didn’t have rich soil or gentle rivers. It had something better: rules, money, and the will to turn strangers into partners. We dive into how a city on the brink of class conflict reinvented itsel
Send us Fan Mail A city on the brink, a ledger of promises, and a small stamped disc that rewired power: this is the story of how Athens turned a debt disaster into durable institutions. We follow the thread from Sumeria
Send us Fan Mail Coins did what speeches couldn’t: they moved power across seas. We follow the rise of Greek silver as it financed fleets, paid jurors and rowers, and turned owls and gods into portable propaganda. Along
Send us Fan Mail Ships got faster, markets thickened, and stamped silver began doing political work that speeches couldn’t. We follow how Greek city-states turned metal into money and money into power—financing fleets, p
Send us Fan Mail Ships got faster, roads stretched farther, and fear did the rest. We follow Greece from the ashes of the Late Bronze Age collapse to a world where stamped silver didn’t just buy grain and oarsmen—it buil
Send us Fan Mail Forget the tidy tale of Athens inventing everything. We follow the harder, richer path: who counted as a citizen, who powered the mines and fleets, and how alphabets, temples, and trade shaped a world th
Send us Fan Mail What if the health of an empire could be read in the trust of its money and the fairness of its institutions? We follow Han China through a gripping arc: from early market freedom and soaring wealth to E
Send us Fan Mail Wealth surges, currency crises, and monopolies on life’s essentials—Han China’s economic story feels startlingly current. We dig into the early Western Han’s laissez-faire push that unleashed private ent
Send us Fan Mail Step back in time to discover how ancient China's financial innovations continue to shape our modern economic thinking. The pendulum swing between state control and private enterprise that defined China'
Send us Fan Mail The financial brilliance of ancient China offers profound lessons for our modern economy. From the revolutionary policies of Li Kui who abolished hereditary slavery and granted private land ownership, to
Send us Fan Mail Journey through ancient China's remarkable economic evolution, from warring feudal states to a unified commercial empire that would influence global trade for millennia. This episode explores how Chinese
Send us Fan Mail The economic transformation of ancient China from 720-221 BCE presents a fascinating case study in how societies evolve from feudal structures to complex commercial economies. During this pivotal era, Ch
Send us Fan Mail Dive into the fascinating economic foundations of ancient Chinese civilization through a journey spanning millions of years of human development. From the mythological giant Pangu separating yin and yang
Send us Fan Mail The epic saga of Carthage's struggle with Rome reveals how economic systems, political ideologies, and military strategies shaped the ancient Mediterranean. From Hannibal's audacious crossing of the Alps
Send us Fan Mail The extraordinary transformation of Carthage from modest Phoenician colony to Mediterranean superpower represents one of history's most remarkable economic and political metamorphoses. Founded by traders
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History of Money, Banking, and Trade is hosted by Mike D. The show is categorised under history and has published 57 episodes.
History of Money, Banking, and Trade has published 57 episodes.
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