The Jewish traders of the Persian period were finally exemplified by the Rhadanites, whose name probably stemmed from the district of Radhan near Baghdad. The Rhadanites were not mere adventurers. They were Talmudic students and the religious, cultural and social liaison between the world-wide-spread Jewish communities.
These mercantile messengers created the first world-wide credit system. They became the conduits of credit through which many nations conducted business through time and space. "Letters of Credit" issued on one continent would be surely and securely honored months later They were worldly-wise couriers who had entree into royal courts and were commissioned by kings to carry out royal diplomatic missions. The Rhadanites set the standard for Jewish international traders everywhere.
This was the first harbinger of the rise of the Radhanite merchants, who spotted a business opportunity and were determined to use it. Ashtor writes: following the blocking of the Mediterranean sea for Christian traders, the Radhanite’s could take over. They could easily travel to and fro the two empires because they did not officially belong to neither of them; therefore they made perfect natural mediators.
The city was founded as Theodosia (Θεοδοσία) by Greek colonists from Miletos in the 6th century BC. Noted for its rich agricultural lands, on which its trade depended, the city was destroyed by the Huns in the 4th century AD. Theodosia remained a minor village for much of the next nine hundred years. It was at times part of the sphere of influence of the Khazars (excavations have revealed Khazar artifacts dating back to the 9th century) and of the Byzantine Empire.
It came to house one of Europe's biggest slave markets of the Black Sea slave trade, and served as a terminus for the Silk Road.
It is believed that the devastating pandemic of the Black Death entered Europe for the first time via Kaffa in 1347. After a protracted siege during which the Mongol army under Janibeg was reportedly withering from the disease, they catapulted the infected corpses over the city walls, infecting the inhabitants, in one of the first cases of biological warfare.
(Researching the Kazarians became a rabbit hole for me again) - Did you know?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Crimea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Crimea#Greek_settlement
**The connection between Crimea - Taurica - Rape of Europa by Zeus disguised as a Taurus and the **
Minos, son of Zeus & Europe, King of Crete was the father of Ariadne who helped Theseus escape the labyrinth in Knossos/Crete.
Ariadne was crowned with the Corona Borealis. Together with Dionysus Ariadne had a son, King Thoas of Lemnos, King of Taurica.
NASA - A new star in the Corona Borealis - Nova Explosion
https://www.worldhistory.biz/ancient-history/68775-the-bloodthirsty-goddess-artemis-tauropolos-and-ortheia.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tauri
The inventors of the credit system were the jewish Rhadanites? - http://www.jewishwikipedia.info/merchants.html
The reason for the Magna Carta? - https://twitter.com/noble_x_x_/status/1740740210030211200
Feodosia/Theodosia/Caffa Crimea was a Khazar slave market settlement? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feodosia#Kaffa_(Genoese_colony)
The reason for the medieval black death? - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feodosia#Kaffa_(Genoese_colony)
https://hebrewhistory.info/factpapers/fp042-1_traders.htm
https://projectodessalife.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/odessa-ukraine-and-the-world-then-til-now-part-i/
Thanks for the high effort post 👍