Scenarios about 'finance'
Finance encompasses the systems, institutions, and mechanisms for managing money, investments, and capital across economies and time periods. Throughout history, financial innovations like banking, stock markets, and currency systems have shaped the rise and fall of empires, funded wars and explorations, and determined economic power structures. In alternate history scenarios, different financial developments can fundamentally alter power balances, technological progress, and societal structures.
What If Ancient Greece Developed Modern Banking?
Exploring how economic and political development might have unfolded if Greek city-states had created sophisticated financial institutions, potentially accelerating economic development throughout the ancient Mediterranean.