Wait Italy is rich?
Wait Italy is rich?
Adam Hall
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Kevin Miller
>new worlder surprised that the people who invented the first bank in world history is able to save money
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Sebastian Green
Funny to think that Germans are actually much poorer then the southern Europeans they look at with contempt
Jaxon Bailey
The fuck is "wealth"
Tyler Peterson
>first bank
The fucking Babylonians had banks
No, the bank of Siena is the oldest bank, not the first
Ian Peterson
It's the value of all the assets that you own minus your debt
Josiah Torres
Does it include real estate?
Jason Long
Yes.
Landon Thompson
you get your bank information written in Roman letters and in numbers that were brought to Europe by an Italian mathematician
this is what a real bank is, if you want to larp then go use an abacus so you can count how many sheep and oxen you own in zambia or something
Jace Allen
Where do you "study" history? On Reddit?
>The present era of banking can be traced to medieval and early Renaissance Italy, to the rich cities in the centre and north like Florence, Lucca, Siena, Venice and Genoa. The Bardi and Peruzzi families dominated banking in 14th-century Florence, establishing branches in many other parts of Europe.[2] Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici set up one of the most famous Italian banks, the Medici Bank, in 1397.[3] The Republic of Genoa founded the earliest-known state deposit bank, Banco di San Giorgio (Bank of St. George), in 1407 at Genoa, Italy.[4]
Ian Lopez
>In b4 someome mentions the Italian public debt
Most of it is owned by Italian citizens and the total debt (private+public) of Italy is nothing compared to that of other countries.
Andrew Wood
even the word 'bank' is italian
>The word bank comes from an Italian word banco, meaning a bench, since Italian merchants in the Renaissance made deals to borrow and lend money beside a bench. They placed the money on that bench.
sharing the simple english article here from wikipedia so new worlders can read it better
Michael Davis
yeah, and that's why today you're all forced to read 'the merchant of bagdad' by william shakespeare at school
Charles White
explain yourselves svennepoors
John Foster
Carige is older
Easton Richardson
Delete this, we suffer
Oliver Martinez
meme map married with meme data
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Hudson Williams
Can i move to italy?
Tyler Edwards
I do not suffer
Isaac Brooks
In the Middleages Italians made up a large amount of the merchants in other countries as well. Lombards also had much the same image as Jews as they were moneylenders and broke the Jewish monopoly on moneylending. Italians in general worked out ways of getting around the prohibition on moneylending.
William Perry
No we aren't but being frugal is our best trait