How Humans Invented Money: 5,000 Years of History

Описание: How Did Humans Invent Money?
The 5,000-Year Story of Trust, Power & PaperDiscover the complete history of money from prehistoric gift economies to cryptocurrency. This comprehensive documentary explores how humans solved the fundamental problem of trust in economic exchange, and how that solution evolved over 5,000 years.What You'll Learn:

Why money didn't start with barter (the gift economy surprise)
How Mesopotamian clay tokens became the first accounting system
Why the invention of coins revolutionized ancient commerce
The rise and fall of paper money in China centuries before Europe
What really caused the gold standard to collapse
How digital transformation made physical money obsolete
Whether cryptocurrency solves or recreates ancient trust problems
What AI and programmable money mean for the future
Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:42 The Trust Problem - Before Money (Pre-10,000 BCE)
12:17 Accounting Before Coins - Mesopotamia (9000-3000 BCE)
24:43 The Coin Revolution - Lydia to Rome (700 BCE - 400 CE)
40:07 Paper Promises - China to Europe (800-1700 CE)
53:29 Gold Standard and Its Collapse (1700-1971)
01:09:43 The Digital Transformation (1950-2008)
01:24:13 Cryptocurrency and the Trust Question Returns (2008-2026)
01:36:51 What Money Becomes (2026-Future)

Key Topics Covered:
→ Hunter-gatherer economies and social debt systems
→ Mesopotamian temple accounting and the shekel's origin
→ Lydian coins and the Roman monetary empire
→ Chinese paper money experiments and failures
→ The gold standard era and Bretton Woods
→ Credit cards, ATMs, and the digitization of banking
→ Bitcoin, blockchain, and decentralized finance
→ Central bank digital currencies and programmable money
→ Universal basic income and post-scarcity economicsThis isn't just ancient history, it's the story of how every dollar, euro, or bitcoin you use today emerged from thousands of years of human experimentation with trust, value, and exchange.Timestamps:


Perfect for students, investors, history enthusiasts, and anyone curious about the financial systems that shape our world.