Europe's First Paper Currency: The History of Money, Europe

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The Origins of Paper Money Series:

Where did paper money come from? Despite it seeming like a modern invention, its origins go back to Ancient China. And, despite it now being hard to think of a world without paper money, in 1968, Americans could still redeem their U.S. bills for silver, and international residents could convert their U.S. dollar bills into gold up until 1971. What led to the invention of paper money and the fiat standard where money has value because government says so? These videos will examine how paper money developed in ancient times.

We have a 5-part series with a video to be released each week: this current video will go through the evolution of paper money in medieval to modern Europe. Like the Chinese, necessity led to invention for the Europeans. Jerusalem fell back under Christian rule in 1099 AD and, now, pilgrims needed a way to move their wealth across large distances—financial innovations were needed.

European states were not as big or as powerful as the Chinese, leading to new innovations. The Republic of Venice needed to issue debt in 1171 to fund its war against Byzantine. This was a huge financial innovation making those who held the bonds creditors and the holders of paper wealth.
The Europeans also innovated by getting smaller. The Europeans created powerful companies that created wealth by exploiting countries abroad. These companies led to the innovation of the stock market. Again, adding to people’s comfort with more abstract wealth.

Next, we go through how the economy of England began to rely more on notes. Finally, we look at the French paper money experiment of 1720. France was the first large economy to experiment with paper money. While it was a colossal failure, it showed that the intellectual climate had completely changes from the beginning of the video.

Our next video will discuss the origins of paper money in the United States.

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Hey guys, I hope you enjoyed our video on the origins of paper money in Europe. Our next part in the series will discuss the origins in the U.S. Each video build on a different time periods use of paper money. Our prior video was on the origins of paper money in China.

TheMarketisOpen
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lol at 1:52, didn't notice it at first!

tomtrish
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Money didn't exist until these experts happened.
Same with ancient ruins.. someone built the old world, and everything was free?

uhadme
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An italian here: The word is "banco" not "banci". Great video!

mrsilvito
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The music starting at 6:40 is not listed in the credits, it should be after "Renaissance". I'd be grateful to know the name of that particular piece, it's absolutely beautiful.

Intaberna
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The overall idea of the video is good, but there are several historical mistakes that make me doubt its accuracy and reliability of this series (which I find very interesting). Examples: first bond was issued by the Genoans in 1149 not the Venetians, the fall of Constantinople was in 1453 (not 1456)...

alejandromg
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For some reason, watching this made me feel like I'm playing Patrician series again. Maybe it's the graphics.

Sventasis
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After brutally slaughtering correct pronunciation of the Mandarin terms in your previous video, in this episode you imply that you were reared in a Wikipedia-linked basement with the repeated mentions of "by-Zaan-tahyn" when it is pronounced "bih-zen-teen".

netizencapet
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16:10 What a Chad move!! Kick out all the undesirables to a different country. I wish America would buy Greenland and send everyone with a Felony to Greenland and revoke their rights to be on mainland USA.

Brismo
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Byzantine is pronounced: "biz - 'en - teen"

MechanicSilo