If I were to ask you, where do you think the first bank was built? What would you say? Switzerland? Or maybe England? Italy perhaps? Well it was actually built in Iran! And it's over 1500 years old! If you do a quick search on the internet, you'll find that most places cite the Banca Monte Dei Paschi Di Siena in Florence, Italy, as the first bank, but this wasn't built until 1472, considering that coins or tokens have been in use for at least 5000 years that seems a little odd. There were in fact many banks before the BMPS, but the BMPS is still functioning and therefore considered the first. Banking was born from the need to store food or grain, basically, a farmer would harvest his crop and need to store it somewhere, a tally was taken of how much he had, a percentage was taken as a storage fee and he could then trade or consume the rest how he wished. With the creation of jewelry, precious gems, gold, and silver, this storage system became more of a security system and customers were charged for storing their deposits and keeping them safe. The Sar Yazd Castle is the oldest bank and safe deposit box in the world today. Situated in the village of Sar Yazd in the Yazd province, Iran, this bank was built around the 3rd century AD and was designed and used to keep food, grains, and valuables safe in case of invasion. Made from mudbrick the bank itself looks like a huge sandcastle fortress but is in fact one of the most basic and yet most intelligent banks ever built. First, attackers would have to cross a 20ft (6m) wide, 13ft (4m) deep moat, assuming the drawbridges were up, this would mean building a bridge or swimming across whilst under attack from eight 20ft high (6m) watchtowers. If they managed to get across, they would then have to breach the 20ft high (6m) external defensive wall that only has three ways in, each protected with a metal door to avoid it being burnt, all whilst under attack from the same eight watchtowers. If they managed to get past the first wall they would be confronted with the internal defensive wall, this one 30ft tall (9m) and protected by another 6 watchtowers, if somehow they managed to get past this wall whilst under attack from all 14 watchtowers, they would find a maze of 480 separate storage rooms on three different levels connected by thin twisting alleyways, this not only made it difficult for intruders to find and extract the valuables but disorientated and slowed them down making it easy to attack them from the watchtowers. It is unknown how much customers were charged for depositing their valuables in this bank, but by looking at the amount of protection it was almost definitely worth it! I hope you enjoyed this video, give us a like if you did and please let us know in the comments below! Get more Tips ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zypm0fWsMk

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