/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>54301880
Read about how trade worked in rome/ancient greece. Then the medicis and knights templar to understand early banking. You will learn how commodities were most of the trading and people did issue bonds as far back as babylonia that were promises of grain payments at a later date. Sort of like current futures on cme are like now. People would prefund a trading vessel and make money years later when it returned. Then check out the dutch east india company and see how they accumulated wealth as a small nation by dominating trade. You can really grasp a lot of this just from wikipedia. But when people say war shouldnt be about money they dont really understand how wrong they are when historically small countries gained power and security simply by capturing trade sources overseas.

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I also heard good things about Runescape (never played it myself)