WiM024 - The Frisby Series | Episode 5 | Taxation in History and Modernity
The "What is Money?" Show
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The Adventures of Marco Polo
"The adventures of marco polo" was originally a description of the world. But in fact, what he's describing is the most terrible fia money system that you've ever heard in yourself. The great khan used bark of trees made into something like paper to pass for money all over his country. Any one forging it would be punished with death. He pretty much sequestered all the wealth of china and the surrounding empire,. where every else, everywhere else was left with his paper.
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