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Sparta Economy Tier 6

State Banking

The first form of banking was carried out by priests, with temples housing deposits and authenticating coinage, exchanging gold and dealing with loans. Throughout Greece, religious buildings doubled as financial institutions, with the Parthenon in Athens at the centre of the Greek financial world. The first bankers began to emerge around the 4th century BC when money-changers, who were normally alien residents or 'metics', set up tables in markets for loans and money exchanges. These lenders went on to become fully-fledged bankers, and state banking was gradually established as the depositing of money moved from the temples to state-run institutions.

Node Set Economy Tier 6

research_points 5200

cost_per_round 867

Effects

• +7 food
• +5% wealth from all commerce (all regions)
• +5% tariff income from trade agreements

Requires
Requires Technologies	Economic Archive

Enables
Enables Buildings	Fish Market Glass Trade Hub Master Leatherworker Sculpture Market Salt Trade Hub Trained Slave Hub Warhorse Trade Hub Iron Trade Hub Wine Trade Hub Dye Trade Hub Silk Road Hub Copper Trade Hub Enclosed Fishery Olive Oil Trade Hub Gold Repository Jewelry Trade Hub Timber Trade Hub Deigma Wine Market Central Slave Quarters