WAR DISTILLATION: BANKS IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN

Source: GHS.

By Gundhramns Hammer
September 11, 2013

Wherever there are human balls (testes), there are territories. With territories come wars. With wars come economics and with economics come wars.

Modern banking and credit systems emerged from the needs of war and wars created new banking and credit systems in Britain´s recent history, for example.  

Most likely intergroup fighting in primitive human bands to avoid being chewed up or cannibalised by belligerent neighbours or later on wars between nations as cultures advanced have been the prime movers of human evolution more than anything else and not meat or shellfish eating for brain growth, as anthropologists and biologists sustain, who are often directly or indirectly under the funding umbrella of the fucking powerful meat lobby.

Armed conflicts between humans (Homo insapiens) have lead to brain eurekas or creation flashes as well as fucking destruction. Lots of fucking destruction! Too much fucking destruction!

Wars which boil down to economics may lead to various changes in human cultures. Amongst which we have:

• Modification of gender and age relationships in societies,
• Development of new technologies (better spears, arrows, rifles, cannons, tanks, airplanes, remote controlled drones, etc.),
• Modification and adoption of economic systems, from simple to sophisticated and complex (e.g., fighting for females or chasing humans to enslave them in the green jungle to modern credit systems in the cement jungle),
• New visions and ideologies, i.e., modification and shaping of the way of thinking, leading to new ways of setting up societies, promoting different human relations and cultural changes,
• Promote new developments in interpreting the universe, resulting in changes expressed through art, writing, literature, technology and science,
• New religious frameworks in societies, from simple pantheism, animism or shamanish to complicated religions with concurrent expansion of faith on a global scale,
• Bring disease and death, thereby upsetting and schewing the age and sex structure of human populations,
• Promote human ecology changes, leading to simple modification of the environment to massive destruction of the Biosphere.

Shuffling the cards of economics intertwined with wars, humans (Homo insapiens) have pushed forward and spurred what they call "progress", but it is a progress based on rivers of bloodshed and mountains of human skeletons. 

And why the fuck not say it, in recent times this "progress" is based on the economics of tonnes of illicit drugs, which are also wrapped with human blood, besides the ecosystem destruction that comes along with the narcotic industry in the South American or Asian jungles.

In a nutshell, man´s history is a bloody ball game where if there is no pain, there is no gain. Economical gain, that is.

Let us check an example of war distillation, the economic wheeling and dealing of fucking humans in the Mediterranean Basin:

                        WARFARE IN PREHISTORIC TIMES

                                                                                     

WARFARE IN EUROPE, NORTH AFRICA, MIDDLE EAST & ASIA
         

   WARS IN THE LAST 2.000 YEARS IN EUROPE  

Source: wikia.

                     

                                       HIDDEN HAND
                                         

    MEDIEVAL & PREWAR EUROPEAN BANKING HOUSES

                                            WAR DISTILLATION

                                                                              

 

                                  

Table 1. The big four banks in the Eastern Mediterranean. Source: Tschoegl (2002).

If human populations around the world were reduced to only two "persons" after a stupid nuclear Armageddon, the two shitty naked apes more likely would be enemies and would engage in warfare or who knows, perhaps they would fuck each other. 

But sooner or later, they would come up with some economic system to continue with their fucking life.

References

These publications will get you started to give an idea of what the fuck is going on in the world of fucking humans:

Birdal M. (2010). The Political Economy of Ottoman Public Debt: Insolvency and European Financial Control in the Late Nineteenth Century. I. B. Tauris Publishers, New York, NY, USA. 232 p.

Black, E. (2004). Banking in Baghdad: Inside Iraq´s 7,000 Year History of War, Profit, and Conflict. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, USA. 471 p. 

Hunt E. S. (1994). The Medieval Super-Companies: A Study of the Peruzzi Company of Florence. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 291 p.

Kostis K. P. (2002). The Creators and Creation of Banking Enterprises in Europe from the 18th to the 20th Centuries. Historic Archives, Alpha Bank, Athens, Greece. 317 p.

Kuran T. (2005). The Logic of Financial Westernization in the Middle East. J. Econ. Beh. Organ., 56: 593-615.

Majd M. G. (2001). Great Britain & Reza Shah: The Plunder of Iran, 1921-1941. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. 429 p.

Pohl M. & Freitag S. (Eds.) (1994). Handbook on the History of European Banks. Edward Elgar Publishing Company, VT, USA. 1303 p.

Ravoet G. (Ed.) (2012). European Banking Sector: Facts and Figures 2012. European Banking Federation, Brussels, Belgium. 80 p.

Roca R. (2002). La Banca: Historia y Funciones. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú. 5 p.

Tschoegl A. E. (2002). Financial Integration, Disintegration and Emerging Re-Integration in the Eastern Mediterranean, c.1850 to the Present. Financial Institutions Center, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA. 52 p.

Wennerlind C. (2011). Casualties of Credit: The English Financial Revolution, 1620-1720. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, USA. 348 p.