Słowianie za srebro. Handel ludźmi u początków Polski
Ślad Epok
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Slavs for Silver: Human Trafficking at the Origins of Poland
Hundreds of hoards of Arab coins have been found in what is now Poland. In one deposit near Poznań, over eighteen thousand dirham fractions, a total of fifteen kilograms of silver, lay. Where did so much of this precious metal come from in a country with no mines, no cities, and no coinage of its own?
The most frequently repeated answer today is: human trafficking. We examine the basis of this thesis. What the coins say and what they cannot. How the mechanism worked: where the captives came from, who led them, and where their journey ended. What the Arab traveler saw in Prague, and where Mieszko obtained the funds to support three thousand armed men. Finally, we do the hardest part: calculating how much of this is based on evidence and how much is based on inference.
No names, no invented scenes, and no photos that no one took at the time. Instead, we clearly distinguish between what is proven and what is hypothetical.
Chapters:
00:00 A Coin That Won't Tell You What It Paid For
03:26 Lands Without Cities, Coins, or Writing
06:53 Where Does the Word "Slave" Come From
09:30 Dirhams: What They Say and Don't Say
12:40 Why Treasure Isn't a Receipt
16:43 How This Trade Worked
21:23 Reputation and Violence Instead of Law
24:51 People Who Left No Trace
26:01 Two Routes, Two Separate Worlds
28:13 Prague Through the Eyes of an Arab Traveler
33:28 Mieszko and Three Thousand Armed Men
37:17 A Depopulated River Basin and Burned Castles
43:14 Why Does a Ruler Need a Bishop?
45:06 Testing Our Own Thesis
49:07 Hard Records from the Borderlands
56:01 What the Evidence Really Shows
#history #middleages #slavs #mieszko #Polishbeginnings #archaeology #Vikings #Polishhistory #dirhemy #trade #Piasts #universalhistory
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Słowianie za srebro. Handel ludźmi u początków Polski
Ślad Epok
277 views
Slavs for Silver: Human Trafficking at the Origins of Poland
Hundreds of hoards of Arab coins have been found in what is now Poland. In one deposit near Poznań, over eighteen thousand dirham fractions, a total of fifteen kilograms of silver, lay. Where did so much of this precious metal come from in a country with no mines, no cities, and no coinage of its own?
The most frequently repeated answer today is: human trafficking. We examine the basis of this thesis. What the coins say and what they cannot. How the mechanism worked: where the captives came from, who led them, and where their journey ended. What the Arab traveler saw in Prague, and where Mieszko obtained the funds to support three thousand armed men. Finally, we do the hardest part: calculating how much of this is based on evidence and how much is based on inference.
No names, no invented scenes, and no photos that no one took at the time. Instead, we clearly distinguish between what is proven and what is hypothetical.
Chapters:
00:00 A Coin That Won't Tell You What It Paid For
03:26 Lands Without Cities, Coins, or Writing
06:53 Where Does the Word "Slave" Come From
09:30 Dirhams: What They Say and Don't Say
12:40 Why Treasure Isn't a Receipt
16:43 How This Trade Worked
21:23 Reputation and Violence Instead of Law
24:51 People Who Left No Trace
26:01 Two Routes, Two Separate Worlds
28:13 Prague Through the Eyes of an Arab Traveler
33:28 Mieszko and Three Thousand Armed Men
37:17 A Depopulated River Basin and Burned Castles
43:14 Why Does a Ruler Need a Bishop?
45:06 Testing Our Own Thesis
49:07 Hard Records from the Borderlands
56:01 What the Evidence Really Shows
#history #middleages #slavs #mieszko #Polishbeginnings #archaeology #Vikings #Polishhistory #dirhemy #trade #Piasts #universalhistory