A Millennium of Ledgers

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Why has the story that 'Jews are good with money' been told for a thousand years? The answer lies not in ethnicity, but in institutions and historical records. The Church that forbade interest, the norms of literacy, the finances of monarchs, the coin dealers of the ghetto. We will open the ledgers of a millennium, one by one.

1. about AD 30　Thirty Pieces of Silver 　Overview: 2,700 years of the world
2. 1460　Frankfurt, Judengasse 　Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
3. 1530s　Houses of the Judengasse 　The Rothschilds (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
4. 1750s　The exchange counter in front of the shop 　Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
5. 1744　A house in the Judengasse 　The Rothschilds (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
6. 1757–1763　Oppenheimer Bank 　Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
7. 1769　Office of the Hereditary Prince 　The Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
8. 1785　Kassel 　The Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
9. 1806　Napoleon's line of march 　The Rothschilds (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
10. 1785–1795　The Jewish quarter 　The Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
11. 1810–1812　Frankfurt 　The Rothschild Family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
12. 1799　Cotton warehouse 　The Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
13. 1810　The parent house in Frankfurt 　The Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
14. 1812　Paris 　Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
15. 1817　Paris, Rue Laffitte 　Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
16. 1814–1815　From the Peninsula to Belgium 　Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
17. 1818　The Exchange 　Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
18. 1818　Counterfoil of the certificate 　Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
19. 1821　Vienna 　The Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
20. 1812　Frankfurt 　Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
21. 1813　Frankfurt 　The Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
22. 1812–1855　The German courts 　The Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
23. 1824　London 　The Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
24. 1834　New Court 　The Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
25. The year 1839　London and Paris 　The Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
26. 1845　Paris, Gare du Nord 　Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
27. 1846　London 　The Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
28. 1846–1847　London 　Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
29. 1846　A printing house in Paris 　Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
30. 1940　Berlin 　Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
31. 1885　The House of Lords 　Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
32. 1875–1876　London 　Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
33. 1883　New Caledonia 　Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
34. 1869　Bank of England 　Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
35. 1885　East End 　Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
36. 1989　Frankfurt 　Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
37. 1904–1905　New York 　Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
38. 1915–1917　New Court 　The Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
39. 1917　London 　The Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
40. 1938–1940　Vienna 　Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
41. 1967–1970　London 　Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
42. 1986　Paris 　Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
43. 2003–2015　Paris and London 　The Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
44. 4th century BC　Money changer's table in the Agora 　Greece
45. 6th century BC　The silver mines of Siphnos 　Greece
46. from the 7th century　Almsgiving and the Ban on Interest 　Overview: 2,700 years of the world
47. the Middle Ages　The Ban on Usury and Persecution 　Overview: 2,700 years of the world
48. from the Yayoi period to the 7th century　The villages of Wa 　Japan
49. the later 8th century　The court of Mercia 　Britain
50. 758–760　The Tamura Residence, Heijō Capital 　Japan
51. the 8th–9th centuries　The court of the Frankish kingdom 　Germany
52. the 9th–10th centuries　The Heian Capital and the provinces 　Japan
53. the early Heian period　Miki District, Sanuki Province 　Japan
54. 1030s　The Money Changer's Stall 　Greece
55. from 1031　The courts of the taifa kingdoms 　Spain
56. the 10th–11th centuries　A money-changer's table at the fair 　France
57. 1092　The Imperial Court 　Greece
58. the 13th century　The storehouses of Kamakura 　Japan
59. the 7th–13th centuries　The granaries of the provinces 　Japan
60. the 11th–13th centuries　London and the cities of England 　Britain
61. the 13th century　The market of Florence 　Italy
62. 1290　An English port 　Britain
63. 1295–1314　The mint of Paris 　France
64. 1296–1316　Court records 　India
65. c. 1329–1330　Delhi 　India
66. the 14th century　A wool export port 　Britain
67. the 14th century　A money-changer's table 　Italy
68. the 13th–14th centuries　A money-changer's ledger 　Italy
69. the 13th–14th centuries　A church pulpit 　Italy
70. the 14th century　Venice and Florence 　Italy
71. 14th century　At a money changer's shop 　Turkey
72. 14th century　Caravanserai 　Turkey
73. 1397　Florence 　Italy
74. the 15th century　The Medici Bank 　Overview: 2,700 years of the world
75. the end of the 15th century–the 16th century　Southern Germany, Augsburg 　Germany
76. the end of the 15th century–the 16th century　The mines of Tyrol and Hungary 　Germany
77. the 14th–15th centuries　The counting-table of a money-changer 　Netherlands
78. the 15th century　Bruges, London, Rome 　Italy
79. the middle of the 15th century　The Medici palace 　Italy
80. the later 15th century　A pawnshop in Perugia 　Italy
81. Late 15th century　A counting house in Augsburg 　Austria
82. 1494　A street in Florence 　Italy
83. 1500–1519　Ghent 　Netherlands
84. 1519　The place of the imperial election 　Germany
85. from 1519　Augsburg, the study of a merchant house 　Germany
86. 1519　The counting-house of the Fuggers 　Spain
87. 1523　The emperor's study 　Spain
88. from 1525　Almadén, the mercury mines 　Spain
89. 1544　The Tudor court 　Britain
90. the later 16th century　Seville, the silver quay 　Spain
91. the earlier 16th century　Flanders, a banker's counting-table 　Spain
92. the 16th century　The royal archive 　Spain
93. the middle of the 16th century　The port of Genoa 　Spain
94. the earlier 16th century　Antwerp, the table of a merchant house 　Netherlands
95. the 16th century　The court of the Grand Duke of Tuscany 　Italy
96. the 15th–16th centuries　A post station on the highway 　Italy
97. 1551 and 1559　Augsburg, the imperial diet 　Germany
98. about 1560　The queen's court 　Britain
99. 1576　Antwerp 　Spain
100. 1619–1623　A town of soaring prices 　Germany
101. from 1628　Imabashi in Osaka 　Japan
102. the end of the 17th century　The Netherlands and London 　Britain
103. the end of the 17th century–the 18th century　A merchant house on a canal, Amsterdam 　Netherlands
104. 17th century　The Money Changer's Drawer 　Turkey
105. 17th century　A money changer's shop 　Turkey
106. from 1689　The City of London 　Netherlands
107. AD 1694　The Bank of England 　Overview: 2,700 years of the world
108. from 1694　England in wartime 　Britain
109. 1700–1715　The gardens of Marly 　France
110. 1717–1720　The Mississippi and Paris 　France
111. 1745–1774　The palace of Versailles 　France
112. the 18th century　The counting-house of a merchant bank, Amsterdam 　Netherlands
113. 17th–18th centuries　Bengal 　India
114. 18th century　House of a Yangban 　Korea
115. 1753　The Viennese Court 　Austria
116. 1777–1781　A banker's office in Paris 　France
117. 1780–1789　The royal treasury office, Versailles 　France
118. 1780　Madrid 　Spain
119. 1789　Kuramae in Asakusa, Edo 　Japan
120. 1789–1790　A print shop, Paris 　France
121. 1795–1803　The window of a money-changer, Paris 　France
122. 1803–1804　The Ministry of Finance, Paris 　France
123. 1807　Departure from the mouth of the Tagus 　Portugal
124. 1810–1813　A house on a canal, Amsterdam 　Netherlands
125. 1828–1848　Satsuma Kagoshima; Choshu Hagi 　Japan
126. 1830–1847　An haute banque salon, Paris 　France
127. 1840　State Treasury Issuing Office 　Turkey
128. 1840　A merchant's counting house 　Turkey
129. 1840s　A money changer's shop 　Turkey
130. 1841　The head office in Athens 　Greece
131. From 1844　Money changer's tray 　Turkey
132. 1844　At the counter of the issuing office 　Turkey
133. 1848–1865　A money-changer's, Paris 　France
134. the 19th century　Bonds and War 　Overview: 2,700 years of the world
135. the beginning of the 19th century　A bank in Rio de Janeiro 　Portugal
136. 17th–19th centuries　Chinese shroffs 　Mexico
137. 19th century　London and Calcutta 　India
138. 19th century　Galata, Istanbul 　Turkey
139. 1873　Lombard Street 　Britain
140. 1876　Tokyo 　Japan
141. the 1890s　Washington and Wall Street 　United States
142. 1894–1895　Tokyo, the Finance Ministry 　Japan
143. 1904　London 　Japan
144. 1907　New York, Morgan's library 　United States
145. November 1910　A night heading south 　United States
146. 1915–18　Behind the front lines 　Italy
147. 1916　A money changer's shop 　Turkey
148. 1919　The market of Turin 　Italy
149. 1925　London, a study 　Britain
150. the 1970s　At a public telephone 　Italy
151. 1970s–1990s　Between the bank and the kye 　South Korea
152. 1994–1997　Financial markets 　Mexico
153. August 17, 1998　Moscow 　Russia
154. 2010–2018　Brussels 　Greece
155. October 25, 2024　Central Bank 　Russia
156. into the present day　The Web of Invisible Money 　Overview: 2,700 years of the world

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