For centuries in a row, in different places all around the world, most everything lasting that has been built most of the time has been done for compensation by

For centuries in a row, in different places all around the world, most everything lasting that has been built most of the time has been done for compensation by gold or the promise of gold. Plenty of destructive things have also been paid for with gold, in those cases sometimes the only thing left to show for it after the dust settles is the gold itself. For enough millennia where it can not be determined how far back toward the dawn of man it extends, and it will never be known if there was ever even another form of currency that was as universal.