Timeline for Why were so many of the earliest banks founded by cloth merchants?
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| Jan 20, 2020 at 18:55 | answer | added | tbrookside | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 20, 2020 at 11:30 | answer | added | Tom Au | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 3, 2020 at 21:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackHistory/status/1213203529361440768 | ||
| Jan 3, 2020 at 9:21 | history | protected | Steve Bird | ||
| Jan 3, 2020 at 8:48 | vote | accept | TheChymera | ||
| Jan 2, 2020 at 16:53 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jan 2, 2020 at 14:29 | answer | added | user27618 | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jan 2, 2020 at 11:48 | answer | added | LаngLаngС | timeline score: 33 | |
| Jan 2, 2020 at 4:43 | comment | added | Denis de Bernardy | If you like details and don't mind spending a few hours on it, check out Patrick Wyman's excellent Tides of History podcast. He made several episodes on the topic of early modern/late medieval merchants. If memory serves me well, though, what Aaron said has some truth (i.e. they had deep pockets), as does the fact that credit instruments developed around then to avoid moving currency around. | |
| Jan 2, 2020 at 4:39 | comment | added | user18968 | Could the explanation be as simple as that cloth was one of the first value-added goods? | |
| Jan 2, 2020 at 4:39 | comment | added | Lars Bosteen | Hi TheChymera and welcome to History SE. Please let us know where you have already looked. Also, can you back up the 'a lot' with some more examples? | |
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| Jan 2, 2020 at 4:30 | history | asked | TheChymera | CC BY-SA 4.0 |