Introduction
Many books have been written about Empires, especially the fall of the Roman Empire. The seminal title is The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in six volumes, by Edward Gibbon, published between 1776-1789. It covers the period from 98AD to 1590. In total, the Roman Republic, Empire, and Byzantium (fall of Constantinople in 1453) lasted 2206 years. Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace, 1833-1869) and Carl von Clausewitz (Prussian military theorist, 1833) felt that historical events and the duration of empires are a result of time cycles.
Themes
2020 …The Year That Was … Pandemics – Plague of Athens – Black Death – Great Plague of London – Cholera – Yellow Fever – Spanish Flu – Covid-19 • Modern Monetary Theory • Gold Price Manipulation • Precious Metals • First Coins • Trade Coins Throughout History • Money & Duration of Empires • World Power – Sea Power vs Heartland Power • Empires & Gold • Cost of Empire • The Thucydides Trap • All Paper Money goes to Zero • Power Structure • Social Wars – Populism – Optimates vs Populares • Free Trade • Rising China • Seizing Gold • Abolishing Gold Standard • Decline of Empire
“Eurasia is the world’s axial supercontinent. A power that dominated Eurasia would exercise decisive influence over two of the world’s three most economically productive regions, Western Europe and East Asia. … a country dominant in Eurasia would almost automatically control the Middle East and Africa.”
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Foreign Affairs, 1997
“The dollar was America’s currency but your problem.”
John Connally
Treasury Secretary
“If we have to use force … it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.”
Madeleine Albright
US Secretary of State, 1998
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Empires & Money: Gold, Paper Money, Crypto – Money & Fall of Empires • 384 pages + OVER 4000 Images • ISBN 978 1 896713 02 1
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