12 events with tag "wealth"
800 BC
ID: 5339
Hallstatt salt mining wealth - salt mining prosperity funds elaborate Celtic burials, traded across Europe
ID: 5339
550 BC
ID: 5365
Vix burial of Celtic princess - massive Greek bronze krater (wine vessel) found, 1.64m tall, shows extent of wine trade and Celtic wealth
ID: 5365
130 BC
ID: 5396
Arverni control wine trade - most powerful Gallic tribe, King Bituitus displays wealth with silver wine vessels
ID: 5396
120 BC
ID: 5397
Luernius's legendary feast - Arverni king feeds thousands for days, wine fountain in 12 square mile enclosure, displays Celtic gift economy
ID: 5397
31 BC
ID: 2739
Egypt becomes Augustus's personal province - not senatorial, provides vast wealth, prefect not proconsul governs
ID: 2739
970
ID: 5839
Otto I develops Rammelsberg mines - imperial control of silver enables strong central government, funds Italian campaigns
ID: 5839
973
ID: 5853
Edgar grants vast estates to reformed monasteries - transfers perhaps 1/3 of royal lands to monastic control
ID: 5853
995
ID: 5861
Aelfric of Eynsham criticizes monastic corruption - even reformist monk admits monasteries have become too wealthy and worldly
ID: 5861
998
ID: 5843
Rammelsberg funds Otto III's Roman renovatio - silver wealth enables imperial ambitions, 'renewal of Roman Empire'
ID: 5843
1011
ID: 5862
Vikings target wealthy monasteries - Canterbury sacked, monasteries' vast wealth makes them prime targets
ID: 5862
1200
ID: 5739
Pepper accepted as dowry and rent payment in Europe - 'peppercorn rent' enters legal vocabulary, spices function as currency
ID: 5739
1260
ID: 5846
Kutná Hora silver discovered in Bohemia - becomes Europe's richest silver source, funds Bohemian kingdom's power
ID: 5846