History of gold
Golden always has been a precious metal on the world and humans have interest and fascination with collecting gold because it was associated with a way of power.
We always can find golden from the bowels of the Earth, in its purest forms, and through fire we could transform it into a wide variety of objects like coins, so famous in a part of the history of humanity.
Today we want to talk about the history of gold and about the ways its physical transformation was made. At the same time we can understand that gold changed the lifestyle of people and societies.
History of gold: some interesting facts.
To talk about the history of gold we have to go back to the Neolithic period, when humans start being aware of their surroundings and began the tools transformation, the domestication of animals and the agriculture.
At that time, when man needed something for the exchanges and after centuries, when humans realized that there are things that they couldn’t exchange, decided to create the money.
Gold is part of the human life and after going back to the Neolithic period we have to go back to Egypt, In other words, to the end of the Paleolithic. This metal was extremely important for the Egyptian life, especially for powerful people. Gold was extracted from South Sudan and it´s one of the earliest known mine or mining work.
They used gold for aesthetic and decorative purposes for pharaohs, dinnerware sets and monuments.
Because of its singularities and characteristics, the gold is one of the most versatile metal and allows to make with it different types of elements.
In the 5th century A.D. the gold circulation started and appeared the coins, money with which people could make exchanges.This practice was strengthened at the Constantine's time when he began choosing the duties and other types of debts that had to be paid to the government.
However, in the history of gold, the colonization of the Americas has been the main source of raw material of gold of all time.
With this short history of gold we can get an idea of the importance of the gold over the centuries and today as one of the world's most precious metals.
