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pop quiz who wrote the first "checks" that could be cashed at a "bank?"
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Date: February 23rd, 2026 10:12 PM Author: federal marvelous quadroon and who were they written to? Why? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5837791&forum_id=2#49690721) |
Date: February 23rd, 2026 10:34 PM Author: rebellious heaven dragon i would guess some transactions generally embodying this concept were among the very first uses of written communication systems. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5837791&forum_id=2#49690761) |
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Date: February 23rd, 2026 10:36 PM Author: federal marvelous quadroon nope. This was a piece of paper you could take to a bank that might be 1,000 miles away from where you were standing when the transaction took place, but you were willing to accept it as payment for services. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5837791&forum_id=2#49690764) |
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Date: February 23rd, 2026 10:42 PM Author: rebellious heaven dragon nope! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5837791&forum_id=2#49690770) |
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Date: February 23rd, 2026 10:44 PM Author: federal marvelous quadroon ok, they bounced all the time then. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5837791&forum_id=2#49690772) |
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Date: February 23rd, 2026 10:46 PM Author: comical low-t voyeur the glory of the written word tp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5837791&forum_id=2#49690775) |
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Date: February 23rd, 2026 10:53 PM Author: rebellious heaven dragon it’s gc all the way down. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5837791&forum_id=2#49690794) |
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Date: February 23rd, 2026 11:03 PM Author: federal marvelous quadroon For the first 500 years writing existed, it was used only by the government to keep tabs on grain supplies and shit. It was used to figure out how much food to feed to slaves and shit. Super grim stuff.
It was not until FIVE CENTURIES LATER that anyone even thought to record the first dynasties, and it was a long time after that anyone used writing for fuck else. |
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Date: February 23rd, 2026 11:10 PM Author: Razzle Sanctuary The knights templar did it to enrich themselves while furthering trips to the holy land (pilgrimage, warring, whoring, etc.) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5837791&forum_id=2#49690817) |
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Date: February 24th, 2026 12:34 AM Author: federal marvelous quadroon Yes!
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Date: February 25th, 2026 1:54 PM Author: federal marvelous quadroon "With the collapse of the Christian kingdoms of the Holy Land, the Templars were left without a purpose. Or, rather, they soon turned their means into an end; they spent their time managing their immense wealth. Philip the Fair, a monarch intent on building a centralized state, naturally disliked them. They were a sovereign order, beyond any royal control. The grand master ranked as a prince of the blood; he commanded an army, administered vast landholdings, was elected like the emperor, and had absolute authority. The French treasury was located in the Temple in Paris, outside the king’s control. The Templars were the trustees, proxies, and administrators of an account that was the king’s only in name. They paid funds in and out and manipulated the interest; they acted like a great private bank but enjoyed all the privileges and exemptions of a state institution. The king’s treasurer was a Templar. How could a ruler rule under such conditions?" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5837791&forum_id=2#49694539) |
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Date: February 25th, 2026 1:56 PM Author: federal marvelous quadroon If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. Philip asked to be made an honorary Templar. Request denied. An insult no king could swallow. He suggested that the pope merge Templars and Hospitalers and place the new order under the control of one of his sons. Jacques de Molay, grand master of the Temple, arrived with great pomp from Cyprus, where he lived like a monarch in exile. He handed the pope a memorandum that supposedly assessed the advantages of the merger but actually emphasized its disadvantages. Molay brazenly argued that, among other things, the Templars were far wealthier than the Hospitalers, that the merger would enrich the latter at the expense of the former, thus putting the souls of his knights in jeopardy. Molay won this first round: the plan was shelved. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5837791&forum_id=2#49694548) |
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Date: February 25th, 2026 1:57 PM Author: federal marvelous quadroon The only recourse left was slander, and here the king held good cards. Rumors about the Templars had been circulating for a long time. Imagine how these “colonials” must have looked to right-thinking Frenchmen, these people who collected tithes everywhere while giving nothing in return, not even—anymore— their own blood as guardians of the Holy Sepulcher. True, they were Frenchmen. But not completely. People saw them as pieds noirs; at the time, the term was poulains. The Templars flaunted their exotic ways; it was said that among themselves they even spoke the language of the Moors, with which they were familiar. Though they were monks, their savage nature was common knowledge: some years before, Pope Innocent III had issued a bull entiSed De insolentia Templariorum. They had taken a vow of poverty, but they lived with the pomp of aristocrats, with the greed of the new merchant classes, and with the effrontery of a corps of musketeers. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5837791&forum_id=2#49694551) |