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There's still a lake in South America that's chock full of gold from them. The "Urban Legend" was that there was a city made of gold, because the Conquistadors met the guys and said "not enough gold".(as it happens, when you only need gold every now and again, you don't tend to have terribly...

Well, it was, then we figured out electricity and Gold had an actual intrinsic value as a conductor.

I suppose no one's ever hyper inflated gold... Oh wait... You don't eat Gold, you don't drink Gold, you don't use Gold for shelter or weapons. As for "Intristic Value recognized by every civilization". Well, There was that group of Native Americans who valued it SOOO much the only thing...

...Dude, you literally said that Gold wasn't Fiat Currency. Except it WAS.

What, exactly, was gold useful for when it was currency? You know why Fiat currency works? Because EVERY CURRENCY EVER IS FIAT. Unless you are literally trading in food\water, your currency is fiat.

Here's a controversial take. The focus on the Crusades as a bad thing is hiding atrocity with atrocity and "what aboutism".