York was a finance capital in England back in the day. Then something something 1190 and now there’s a plaque.
https://www.yorkcastle.com/media/york-tablet-large.jpg
Completely unrelated to any “special economic role as moneylenders”, to be sure.
Has anyone traced who the Hyksos were? They seem to just show up, then disappear, “and nobody knows what happened to them”, but that doesn’t seem like what really happened.
I strongly believe that inaccurate names and labels are a major player in all of this.
York was a finance capital in England back in the day. Then something something 1190 and now there’s a plaque.
https://www.yorkcastle.com/media/york-tablet-large.jpg
Completely unrelated to any “special economic role as moneylenders”, to be sure.
Has anyone traced who the Hyksos were? They seem to just show up, then disappear, “and nobody knows what happened to them”, but that doesn’t seem like what really happened.