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[[File:SCB Park Plaza 2009.jpg|250px|thumb|OTM Plaza,  a high-rise building complex in [[K'alak Muul]] where the [[Bank of Ox Te Muul]] has its headquarter]]
The '''Totonac Wars''' are a serie of conflicts that opposed the [[Coalition of Coconeh Calpotlin|Azcapotzalco Tlatholoyan]] and the [[Cheongmae|Grand Empire of Thae Kaew]] during the late 15th century. {{wp|Totonacapan}} was an economically advanced region, serving as a trading hub between [[Portal:Artemis|Irathava]] and [[Portal:Artemis|Nepantia]]. It was divided into three states, [[Papantlan]], [[Tuxpan]], and [[Cempoala]], with Papantlan enjoying the greater prestige out of them for its size, population, and position as the successor of the old [[Tajin]]. It's the conquest of Papantlan by Azcapotzalco that would trigger the following conflicts, as the Tlatholoyan was now threatening the coastal states, some of which were vassals or allies of the [[Cheongmae|Thae Kaew]].
In the [[Mutul]], banks are governed by the [[Mutulese Central Bank]], established in its modern form in 1901. Historically, banks in the Mutul were divided in two system : a western "bloc" that operated mostly in businesses related to [[Mutulese Ochran|Ochraneses and Vespanians matters]] and an eastern bloc that lagged behind for most of its history, overshadowed in the Thalassians by the [[Latium|Latin]], [[Arthurista|Arthuristans]], and [[Sante Reze|Rezeses]]. Since the great crisis of the start of the 19th century and the following century-long restructuration effort from the [[Divine Monarchy of the Mutul|Divine Throne]], the gap between these two blocs has dissapeared, but still has consequences, both economically and culturally.


There are more than sixty banks registered across the Mutul, with a further three being state owned. In total, they have a combined assets of 4,225 trillions [[Baat (currency)|Baats]] (845 billions [[Latin solidus|solidus]]) as of June 2019.
==Prelude==
Since its rulers have claimed the title of ''Huetlatoani'' ("Great Speaker" or "Emperor") 60 years prior, the city of [[Coalition of Coconeh Calpotlin|Azcapotzalco]] expanded greatly outside of its home valley. It's latest successful campaign, triggered by a plea of help from its allied-city of [[Teotlan]], was led by the Huetlatoani [[Chimalopoca]] against the kingdom of {{wp|Mam people|Xelaju}}, ended with a crushing victory and the installation of a permanent {{wp|Nahuatl|Nahua}} settlement to keep the defeated kingdom in check.


The "Big Four" commercial banks of the [[Mutul]] are the [[West Maritime Bank]], the [[Green Society]], the [[Kanul-Ho Bank]], and the [[Bank of Ox Te Muul]].  
Chimalopoca's son, [[Tezozomoc II]], continued his father and great-grandfather's expansionists policies. Using the murder of Azcapotli merchants and the staunch refusal of [[Papantlan]] to allow Azcapotli troops in its territories to secure trades, Tezozomoc launched a successful invasion of Papantlan in 1490. Papantlan's king found refuge in the neighboring state of [[Tuxpan]], another {{wp|Totonac}} state.


==History==
All three Totonac states then formed a defensive alliance against Azcapotzalco, as they feared [[Tezozomoc II]] would seek any excuse to invade all of their lands and reach the coast.
[[File:Fort Zealandia Taiwan.jpg|250px|thumb|A Mutulese fort in the Vespanian Ocean]]
The growing involvment of the [[Mutul]] with the international capital market was mediated by an early form of {{wp|merchant banks}}. These grew out of merchant "administrative communities" (the "{{wp|Calpulli|Nuk Nahob}}") that shifted their capital first from financing their own trade and inventories to {{wp|acceptance credit}} and later branched out into various financial services in the Mutuleses markets.
 
Since the invention of the [[Printing in the Mutul|printing press]], the [[Mutul|Divine Throne]] slowly moved away from using commodities such as jade or copper for its exchanges, and adopted paper money. It also developed {{wp|Bond (finance)|bonds}} as a form of debt recognition to raise new capitals for the construction of new infrastructure, the modernisation of its military, and also new military campaigns both in [[Ajax|Ochran]] and [[Belfras|Norumbia]]. These bonds were sold in marketplaces by government officials, jointly traded with the {{wp|Share (finance)|shares}} of various enterprises and corporations, a practice introduced by the {{wp|Calpulli|Nuk Nahob}} operating in Ochran who where always in dire need of new capitals. As a result, many markets in the [[Mutul]] turned into early {{wp|stock exchanges}}, separated from other market places. The [[Blessed Printmaker House]] was the first institution that performed tasks similar to that of a modern {{wp|central bank}}, under the control of the Treasury.
[[File:Museo de America Madrid Codex.jpg|250px|thumb|left|Display at the [[K'alak Muul|K'alak Muul Museum of Arts and History]] of 16th century Mutuleses printed bonds]]
After the [[Mutulo-Reze Wars]] and the [[Sante Reze#History|Noble Rebellion]] in [[Sante Reze]], merchants in the east coast, who were generally considered to be lagging behind their [[Yajawil of Kanol|Tatinak]], {{wp|Huisca|Teenek}}, and {{wp|Chontal maya|Yokot'an}} counterparts, enjoyed new opportunities offered by the fall of the Reze Trade Cartel. Under the guarantee of a newfound friendship between the Divine Throne and the Noble Republic, they started to invest in the reconstruction of Sante Reze after its takeover by the Noble Houses, with specialists brokers serving as middlemen : floating the bonds on behalf of the Noble Republic, and later also for other governments such as [[Ayeli]] or [[Caripe]], and create a market for those bonds. These markets would remain active until the [[Sajal War]] of the 1820s and the ensuing crisis.
 
In 1750, the creation of the [[Tsurushima|First Tsurushimese Republic]] sparkled an economic crisis in the Divine Kingdom's Vespanian possessions that had profound effects even in Oxidentale. It made investors feel that these far-away regions had become "too risky" and shied away from them. This distrust would only b further confirmed with the [[Second Kahei War]] of the 1810s, where the Mutulese throne even encouraged investors to liquidate all the assests they could from the region, with few exceptions like [[Benaajab]]. It's only with the end of the [[Sajal War]] and new technological innovations that some investors would return to the Vespanian, but no longer in a dominant position except in, once again, [[Benaajab]], until the last decade of the 19th century when the [[Benaajab|Second Bandhaśēka]] and the collaboration of the [[Mutul]] in the nationalisation of foreign assets operated by [[Tsurushima|the Daitoa Republic]] marked the end of that era.
 
===Modern times===
====Wilijaj Chan K'awiil reign====
[[File:02puertoDeVeracruzDetalle.png|250px|thumb|right|The city of [[Yu]] was the main hub of Mutuleses trades with Ochran]]
During the rule of [[Divine Monarchy of the Mutul|Walijaj Chan K'awiil II]], the [[Mutul]] had already started an heavy restructuration and modernisation of its financial institutions and system, alongside that of the rest of its society. Foreign banks, the [[Sante Reze|Reze]] were favored but it also included [[Arthurista|Arthuristans]] and [[Latium|Latins]] institutions, started to open branch in the Mutul, while the Divine Throne took a more direct approach to the country's third sector, favorizing the creation of the [[Green Society]] from the reunion of local mutual farming banks or even founding new state-owned banks such as the [[Industry and Infrastructure Bank]]. These always had specific goals such as to promote lending to small family farms in the former example, or to facilitate the modernisation of the Mutul infrastructures and factories for the latter.
 
====Early 20th Century====
With the [[Benaajab|Second Bandhaśēka]] and the nationalization operated by the [[Tsurushima|the Daitoa Republic]], assests still in the Vespanian Ocean and Ochran returned to the [[Mutul]]. There, the ongoing "Arm Race" between [[Belfras]] and the Divine Kingdom led to further demands from the state for funds to continue to improve it's military and infrastructure in case of a war with its northern rival. The [[Belfro-Mutulese war of 1911]] proved to be a risk, but the post-war reconstruction brought new opportunities, and so did the following [[Condozi War]]. It's during that period, to trind and recover some of their strength that had been depleted by the end of the [[Mutulese Ochran|Mutulese presence in Ochran]], many Takinak and other western Nuk Nahob fused into the [[Western Maritime Bank]]. It was also a period of emergence, or rather of re-emergence of private banking, with the enterprises owned by aristocratic families modernizing, allying, and sometime merging to form new, modern, banks.

Revision as of 14:23, 25 November 2019

The Totonac Wars are a serie of conflicts that opposed the Azcapotzalco Tlatholoyan and the Grand Empire of Thae Kaew during the late 15th century. Totonacapan was an economically advanced region, serving as a trading hub between Irathava and Nepantia. It was divided into three states, Papantlan, Tuxpan, and Cempoala, with Papantlan enjoying the greater prestige out of them for its size, population, and position as the successor of the old Tajin. It's the conquest of Papantlan by Azcapotzalco that would trigger the following conflicts, as the Tlatholoyan was now threatening the coastal states, some of which were vassals or allies of the Thae Kaew.

Prelude

Since its rulers have claimed the title of Huetlatoani ("Great Speaker" or "Emperor") 60 years prior, the city of Azcapotzalco expanded greatly outside of its home valley. It's latest successful campaign, triggered by a plea of help from its allied-city of Teotlan, was led by the Huetlatoani Chimalopoca against the kingdom of Xelaju, ended with a crushing victory and the installation of a permanent Nahua settlement to keep the defeated kingdom in check.

Chimalopoca's son, Tezozomoc II, continued his father and great-grandfather's expansionists policies. Using the murder of Azcapotli merchants and the staunch refusal of Papantlan to allow Azcapotli troops in its territories to secure trades, Tezozomoc launched a successful invasion of Papantlan in 1490. Papantlan's king found refuge in the neighboring state of Tuxpan, another Totonac state.

All three Totonac states then formed a defensive alliance against Azcapotzalco, as they feared Tezozomoc II would seek any excuse to invade all of their lands and reach the coast.

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