Comments by "Seven Proxies" (@sevenproxies4255) on "Knightfall: Official Trailer | Series Premiere December 6 DEBUNKED" video.

  1. John Stachteas: Game of Thrones is a poor comparison seeing as how it is a fantasy setting and not based off actualy history. As to Vikings and Knightfall... I don't really see why they couldn't make good television series thay were historically accurate? Historical accuracy hardly hampers narrative in any way, so it's entirely feasible to make a good story within the confines of historical accuracy.
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  2. Two words: Ancient Aliens
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  3. I'm a bit curious about the Templar order and their early form of banking. How did they conduct successful banking when the Bible expressively forbade the practice of "usury"? (the practice or lending money by the promise of being paid back at an interest) Did they have a bulla that gave them an exception to this rule?
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  4. AdoraBell: Interesting! Thanks for the reply and the link. I especially liked the part about fees for paying off your loan late and I can see how that could effectively keep a banking institution going while at the same time circumventing church laws about usury. If you pay the loan on time, then the banker wouldn't grant you further loans and other bankers probably wouldn't either since there would be no profit in it for them. So a sort of unspoken understanding must have formed where the debtor purposefully delayed paying back the full amount of the loan a certain time for the bank to make a profit they're satisfied with. This seems like a very likely way of doing banking under the church during the middle ages. Speculation in coin might've been practiced, but it seems like a very risky and unstable form of banking compared to the practice of institutionalized delay fees.
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  5. AdoraBell: But that wouldn't really work with currencies of the middle ages would it? I mean the value of Euro and British Pound Sterling is determined by outside factors than the currency itself. They're both fiat currencies. But during rhe middle ages, currency was usually minted in coin, and the coins contained a certain amount of precious metals like gold or silver. So unlike our modern fiat currencies whose value is derived from debt and bonds in a modern banking systrm, the currencies of the middle ages usually had their own intrinsic value as physical pieces of precious metals. So it wouldn't really matter if I had currency from one country or the other. The value would still be roughly the same depending on how much the currency weighed and what precious metals it was minted from.
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