bookbestseller Posted Monday at 02:07 PM Report Share Posted Monday at 02:07 PM The History of Debt: Monarchs, Markets, and Mankind (The History Series) by Skriuwer.comEnglish | February 26, 2025 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DYPB5C3C | 267 pages | EPUB | 1.24 Mb What if debt isn't just about money-but power, rebellion, and the fate of empires?Uncover 5,000 years of financial warfare-from Mesopotamian temples to Wall Street-in a book that rewrites everything you know about owing and owning. Shocking Truths You'll Discover: Ancient "Debt Jubilees" - Kings erased debts to stop revolutions 7 Colonial blood money - How loans funded slavery and conquest 137 Medieval Church vs. Bankers - A holy war over interest rates Large Print Edition! Crystal-clear text for marathon reading sessions."If you owe the bank $100,000, the bank owns you. If you owe $100 million, you own the bank."- American Proverb (A truth that toppled economies) Explosive Revelations:Hammurabi's Code (1750 BCE) capped interest at 20%-but temple lenders found loopholes (Ch. 2) 7Kublai Khan punished debt-refusers with death-while inventing paper money (Ch. 4) 13England's national debt began in 1694 to fund wars-spawning the Bank of England (Ch. 16) 13Post-slavery economies trapped workers in company-store debt (Ch. 18) 7 Journey Through Debt's Hidden Battlefields:CHAPTER 1: DEBT'S ORIGINSWhy barter is a myth-credit came first 7.CHAPTER 6: SOLON'S REVOLTHow wiping debts saved Athens from civil war.CHAPTER 9: ISLAMIC FINANCE REVOLUTIONZero-interest loans (qard al-hasan) that built trade empires.CHAPTER 15: COLONIAL CRUELTYForced labor disguised as "resource debt".⚖ Debt: The Ultimate Weapon of ControlMesopotamian kings used debt forgiveness to prevent uprisings (Ch. 2) 7The Catholic Church excommunicated bankers for "usury" (Ch. 10)19th-century empires collapsed after defaulting on loans (Ch. 19) 7IMF-style debt traps began in ancient Egypt (Ch. 3) 9 A Reader's Verdict:"This book shattered my illusions! Chapter 2 on Hammurabi's debt laws and Chapter 15 exposing colonial 'credit systems' were revelations. Large print made dense history accessible-I devoured it in days." - Prof. Elena R., Economic Historian Why You'll Feel Rage & Awe:Viking thralls entered slavery over unpaid grain loans (Ch. 10)Renaissance bankers funded wars with double-entry bookkeeping (Ch. 13)Industrial-era 'company stores' trapped miners in perpetual debt (Ch. 18) [b]Uploady[/b]https://uploady.io/ekr329xvdhr1/25gbz.7zRapidGatorhttps://rg.to/file/12fdb232e8f1df9ddfc44bfc441d9096/25gbz.7z.html[b]UploadCloud[/b]https://www.uploadcloud.pro/ozukv9p6x2ay/25gbz.7z.htmlFikperhttps://fikper.com/JNjda6iHzp/25gbz.7z.htmlFreeDLhttps://frdl.io/nztjtao7986n/25gbz.7z.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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