"In historical times credit preceded the coining of money by over two thousand years. Coinage is dated from the first …"

"Cattle breeding has supplied us with many financial terms used in later money economies. For example, there is our ow…"

"There are many references in the Iliad and the Odyssey to the use of the ox as a unit of account. The Homeric Greeks …"

"Solon's reforms were radical and for the most part they endured. ...All those enslaved for debt were freed; those sol…"

"Each city struck its own coinage. Every foreign transaction required a money-changing transaction. Many cities engage…"

"Before the Persian wars... the hoarding of coin was general... Cities and temples, especially the Temple of Delphi, a…"

"The victories of the Turks and the interruption of the Oriental trade route through the Mediterranean led to the disc…"

"The structure of trade and industry changed. Europe now had great capitalists possessed of large and diversified inte…"

"Spain, recently the most powerful of European states, sank into financial decrepitude in spite of her empire in the N…"

"Between 1430 and 1480, the at Florence was by far the greatest financial organization in Europe.., with branches thro…"