The most powerful banking dynasty in European history — founded by Mayer Amschel Rothschild in Frankfurt's Jewish ghetto — who established banking houses in Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, and Naples — financing European wars, governments, and the British Empire.
Creates the cross-border banking network as a financial instrument — the Rothschilds' ability to transfer funds across five countries through family branches (before telecommunications existed) gave them an informational and logistical advantage over any single-country competitor; this network model is the ancestor of all international banking.
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