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Piracy wasn’t the crime, sailing without a flag was. Empires handed out letters of marque, told crews take what you can, and collected their cut back at port. Risk stayed at sea, profit stayed on land, that was the deal.

Privateers were just early contractors with cannons, investors, and legal cover. And when some captains realized they didn’t need the crown anymore, pirates were born.

Once you read this as economics instead of folklore, the whole system makes sense.

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“Why risk the gallows when the crown pays better.” (probably every privateer ever)

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There was a time when forgiveness came with a price list. What began as devotion slowly turned into a scalable revenue system — belief converted into liquidity, fear into cash flow. Indulgences weren’t just a religious practice; they were an early experiment in monetizing trust at scale.

Once money entered the sacred, authority cracked. And when trust collapsed, Europe followed.

If this feels less like ancient history and more like a warning, that’s not accidental.

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“When belief becomes a product, trust becomes fragile.” — history, again

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Gold impressed people. Salt kept them alive. Long before modern money or supply chains, empires rose and fell over control of what was essential, not what was luxurious. Salt preserved food, funded states, built roads, and gave governments a tax base no one could escape.

Once you understand why salt mattered more than gold, modern power structures stop looking mysterious — and start looking familiar.

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“Luxury shines. Necessity rules.” — history, quietly

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Venice didn’t rule with armies or land — it ruled with trust. By turning credibility into money and money into governance, a city built on water engineered the first true financial system. Public debt, state-backed banking, money detached from metal… all of it existed here centuries before Wall Street.

Once you see how Venice treated trust as infrastructure, modern finance suddenly looks like an old remake.

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“Power isn’t gold. It’s confidence.” — Venice, basically

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The Financial Genius of Sun Tzu (That No One Talks About)

Sun Tzu wasn’t obsessed with winning battles — he was obsessed con no arruinar al Estado. For him, war was an economic emergency: control costs, move fast, protect logistics, and invest in intelligence because it’s cheaper than mistakes. Glory was irrelevant. Survival wasn’t.

Once you read The Art of War as a balance sheet, modern conflicts suddenly make a lot more sense.

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“No nation has ever benefited from prolonged warfare.” — Sun Tzu

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How the Maya Turned Chocolate Into Money

Before coins, banks, or gold reserves, the Maya ran a real economy on cacao. Chocolate wasn’t a treat — it was money. Taxed by the state, stored in warehouses, used to pay soldiers, settle debts, and move power across Mesoamerica. Scarce, divisible, trusted. The same rules every monetary system still follows today.

Once you see how cacao worked as money, the idea of “modern finance” feels a lot less modern.

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“Money is whatever people agree not to eat.” — probably a Maya accountant

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How Carthage Challenged Rome With Economics

Before legions decided the fate of the Mediterranean, balance sheets did. Carthage built power through trade, capital, and logistics; Rome answered with credit, taxation, and mass mobilization. The Punic Wars weren’t just fought with swords — they were fought with money, endurance, and economic design.

Carthage could out-trade Rome. Rome could out-last Carthage. And that difference changed history.

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“Wars are won by systems, not heroes.” — history, again

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America didn’t win independence on ideals alone — it won it on credit. Foreign loans, European rivalries, collapsing currency, and domestic speculators quietly financed the Revolution. The war for freedom was also a high-risk investment… and empires were the ones funding it.

Debt shaped diplomacy, taxes sparked rebellion, and the new nation’s first institutions were built to reassure creditors — not philosophers. Once you see how the U.S. was born financially, modern geopolitics starts to look very familiar.

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“Every revolution needs funding.” — history, repeatedly

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We just hit 100k subscribers, and honestly, that means a lot.
Big thanks to everyone who’s been watching, commenting, hyping the videos, and helping this channel grow from day one.

This whole project started with the idea of making financial history actually make sense, and seeing 100k people jump in this early is huge.

Thanks for being here, for supporting the original channel, and for pushing us to keep raising the quality of the scripts, visuals, and everything we do.

More stories, more deep dives, more chaos from history on the way.

Cheers everyone, appreciate you all. 🫵🏼👊🏼🔥

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Al-Ghazali: The Thinker Who Linked Money to Morality

A thousand years before modern economics, Al-Ghazali warned that societies collapse not from scarcity, but from corruption. He saw hoarded wealth as “dead money,” understood speculation as moral failure, and argued that trust — not metal — is what gives money its power. His analysis of integrity, inequality, and financial decay reads less like medieval philosophy and more like a diagnosis of the world today.

If you think our economic problems are new, Al-Ghazali makes that timeline look very short.

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