1. What is money? 2. How did religious views influence money-lending in early
Italy? When did money lending become acceptable?
3. How did the Medici get around the usury laws?
4. How did the bond market develop?
5. What invention did the Dutch have that influenced the stock
market?
6. What was the first joint-stock company? What determined
the stock prices?
7. What were Law's plans?
8. Do you agree or disagree that world history revolves around
money? Why or why not?

True or flase? a. new technological developments can us adapt to depleting sources of natural resources. b. research and development funds from the government to private industry never pay off for the country as a whole; they only increase the profits of rich corporations. c. in order for fledgling industries in poor nations to thrive, they must receive protection from foreign trade. d. countries with few natural resources will always be poor. e. as long as real gdp (gross domestic product) grows at a slower rate than the population, per capita real gdp increases.