| ▲ | The decline and fall of the Roman currency empire(economist.com) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 points by andsoitis 2 days ago | 5 comments | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | skeletoncrew2 19 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Haha this article doesn’t seem to know much about money: in paragraph 1 it notes that Roman gold coins in India could be melted and reformed into other gold valuables, then in paragraph 2 it asserts that this suggests Rome ran a trade deficit. It later claims that currency may have caused a plague…hello maybe it was trading that caused the bacteria to move | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | bitmaks 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
anyone have a archive link? | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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