Fort Knox, Kentucky USA. It is one of the most highly protected fortresses on the planet. Behind a door of about twenty tons, is the world's most famous metal reserve. In this publication, we will analyze the mysterious power of gold, its influence on history and civilizations.
Fort Knox, Kentucky USA. It is one of the most highly protected fortresses on the planet. Behind a door of about twenty tons, is the world's most famous metal reserve. In this publication, we will analyze the mysterious power of gold, its influence on history and civilizations.
It is estimated that at Fort Knox, there is such an amount of gold, worth more than a quarter of a trillion dollars. But why do we consider this metal so valuable? The value associated with gold is purely imaginary, but people were motivated by that conviction and had a huge effect. The gold at Fort Knox comes from mines all over the world. North and South America, Africa, Asia... The traditional story tells that where gold is found, man will run to dig it up. Let's find out why.
Let us go back some two hundred thousand years, the first hunters as they enter new territory; the thirst increases, in a relentless place, the hunters know what to look for; the brightness of the sunlight in a river. For primitive humans the flash meant water, purity and survival. That prehistoric connection still persists.
The events of the past and the present are intertwined, so that in our collective cultural DNA is fixed the contemporary attraction to shining things, in that ancestral mechanism of survival.
The events of the past and the present are intertwined, so that in our collective cultural DNA is fixed the contemporary attraction to shining things, in that ancestral mechanism of survival.
There is another reason why this metal has power over us. It's rare, if there was gold everywhere, like sand in the desert, obviously we wouldn't give it any value.
There is another reason why this metal has power over us. It's rare, if there was gold everywhere, like sand in the desert, obviously we wouldn't give it any value.
Over 2500 years ago. On one side of the planet a new idea for gold emerged. The Mediterranean, as the Mediterranean expand their trade routes, gold becomes money. As gold seems to have value makes trading easier, that makes it a natural form of money.
In the ancient times only seven materials were known: gold, copper, lead, tin, silver, iron and mercury. Iron is too hard, lead is too soft, tin is too weak, and mercury is a liquid; copper and silver are used for coins, but they are tarnished. For the ancients, there's nothing like gold.
In Europe and Asia, gold coins become the symbol of the nations that mint them. Gold coins allow ordinary people to have "the metal of the gods". It is a combination of the attraction of gold glitter, when we connect it, on the one hand, with the idea of the power of a king; and on the other, with the power of a god.
The author's research reveals, without scrutinizing the origin of this extraordinary metal, that none of the uses of gold would have been possible; nothing in human history would have made sense in this much larger context of the planet, the solar system, our galaxy and obviously the entire cosmos.
For millions of years, all this treasure has been hidden under the sea. At the beginning of the planet's history, the globe was covered in water; it was a world of water, but once again, things are about to change. Over time, the presence of tectonic plates caused the continents to begin to form.
As we have observed, we are programmed to look for gold; but, as civilizations develop, we see gold in different ways. The ancient world has two sides; on one side of the planet, gold is used as money, but the civilizations of the Americas have no coins; there, gold is only used to create objects of beauty and worship.
Gold is still a divine metal. The ancients were obsessed with gold over what could be done with it, it was a very pure material, but it was not money.
Gold is still a divine metal. The ancients were obsessed with gold over what could be done with it, it was a very pure material, but it was not money.
The author has linked the history of gold to a worldwide clash. Liquid gold bubbles into a primitive soil originated by a karstic erosive process in the limestone rock, a cavity through which water seeps or percolates at lower levels, and remains beneath the surface of the planet as a buried treasure. The treasure moves with the continents while the balloon divides in two. On the one hand, gold coins are used for trading; on the other hand, gold statues are made for worship.
The author has linked the history of gold to a worldwide clash. Liquid gold bubbles into a primitive soil originated by a karstic erosive process in the limestone rock, a cavity through which water seeps or percolates at lower levels, and remains beneath the surface of the planet as a buried treasure. The treasure moves with the continents while the balloon divides in two. On the one hand, gold coins are used for trading; on the other hand, gold statues are made for worship.
The great civilizations of the Americas had not yet reached the level of development necessary to use money as a tool to facilitate large-scale exchanges. Gold was only used to create images of gods because of its symbolic and selective imagery..
Now, after thousands of years apart, these two civilizations will meet and collide. Columbus opens the way, thousands follow. One side is hungry for gold, the other is rich on this one.
Now, after thousands of years apart, these two civilizations will meet and collide. Columbus opens the way, thousands follow. One side is hungry for gold, the other is rich on this one.
"California's Gold Rush" is causing others to break out all over the world: Russia, Australia, South Africa... Between 1492 and 1900, the search for gold transformed populations and civilizations beyond a third of the planet.
"California's Gold Rush" is causing others to break out all over the world: Russia, Australia, South Africa... Between 1492 and 1900, the search for gold transformed populations and civilizations beyond a third of the planet.
From fragment in space to ingots in Fort Knox; from a symbol of divinity to a symbol of wealth; the history of gold is that of a world separated by geological forces and later reconnected by something more powerful, the human imagination pursuing an object that it believes is valuable.
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