Conspiracies in general and gold conspiracies in particular are as old as commerce itself. Because gold is wealth, a true tangible, portable, fungible, and distinguishable form of wealth, it has naturally been used as currency around the world for centuries. And this fact sets the stage perfectly for gold conspiracies to pop up like African Daisies do in the Arizona summertime, all you need is a little seed and a little something the wet that seed with, like greed, and a gold conspiracy will germinate and come to blooming fruition right in front of your eyes, even though it is all supposed to happen behind your back.

African Daisies Grow Like Weeds In Arizona. Gold Conspiracies Multiply Similarly.

Before we delve too far into these gold conspiracies, however, the word conspiracy itself should be loosely defined, since as of late the term conspiracy has become tainted. A conspiracy is simply an agreement between two or more people. Legally, a conspiracy is a tool prosecutors use when they have to try several people for participating in the same crime.

A prosecutor does not have to prove the guilt of everyone involved for their part in the crime, he need only post a beyond reasonable doubt a wall of evidence that a participant had knowledge a crime was going to be committed, as long as the prosecutor cites “conspiracy”. Perhaps a simpler translation is the word “cahoots”, and two people can be in cahoots to rob a bank together just as four people can be in cahoots to plan a surprise birthday party together.

A Surprise Birthday Party Is A Conspiracy Of Sorts, Though They Are Generally Not A Gold Conspiracies.

While most gold conspiracies involve more than two or four people, because gold is wealth and people are naturally greedy, there are little gold conspiracies and there are grand gold conspiracies. Let’s look at some of the grander gold conspiracies:

Some Roman Currencies Became Gold Conspiracies.

Unless you have studied Roman history, or are perhaps from that particular pocket of the world, then you may not be aware of how the fall of Rome was inextricably entwined with a currency devaluation scheme that involved not only gold conspiracies, but conspiracies that included all of the metals that the Romans used to coin in order to effect payment and commerce.

As the excesses of the Roman Population grew, they became more difficult to maintain much less improve upon, but that is exactly what Roman Emperors decreed and demanded. Eventually in order to pay for these excesses the Roman treasures began hording coins of gold and coins of silver and even coins of less valuable metals and they began melting them down along with impurities and casting the gold coins and the silver coins and eventually other coins into coins that were smaller than but marked at the same  value as their larger predecessors. Thus a Roman gold conspiracy.

A Roman Gold Coin. A Source Of Yet More Gold Conspiracies.

By definition, since it took more than one person to melt down and recast that many gold and silver coins, and since someone had to know that this was happening (all of the Romans eventually noticed that the gold and silver coins had changed and were still changing) we have a gold conspiracy, and couple this with the sheer size and power of the Roman Empire, we have a grand gold conspiracy. The Romans utilized gold and silver coins because gold is wealth, but that gold was stolen from their currency little by little everyday.

The Inca Empire Indians And Gold Conspiracies.

This is another gold conspiracy fueled by greed. Greed for wealth, and in this case, because gold is wealth, greed for gold in particular. Because this case differs from Rome in one very certain aspect, much less explanation is needed in this case. You see the gold conspiracies in this case began in another country, not from within the system, as was the case in the Roman gold conspiracies.

Inca Ruins. The Site Of Many Gold Conspiracies.

Tales of great riches and vast quantities of gold traveled around the globe (no small feat at this time in history) and these tales found the ear attached to the head of a man named Francisco Pizarro. Francisco talked his two brothers (conspiracy achieved) and they decided to sail to find riches, and hopefully gold riches, since gold is wealth and the Spanish economy traded on it and struck gold coins as currency, thus another of many gold conspiracies was launched.

Eventually Francisco and his brothers reached Inca territory, and they saw gold wealth, but cared for the value of little else they saw. In order to further enhance the gold conspiracies, Francisco and his brothers sailed back to Spain to ask for and receive royal permission to conquer the Inca lands and become it’s viceroy. So now we have royal gold conspiracies in addition to familial gold conspiracies.

Francisco Pizarro, Pictured Above, Was Involved In Gold Conspiracies.

But the gold conspiracies grow deeper because as the tale is told in history books Pizarro was able to conquer great Inca territories with 168 men, 27 horses, and a cannon. Research tells us that today that a combination of smallpox and civil war decimated many Incan villages. The bloody Incan civil war raged on to determine who would rule the empire since the most likely heirs were quite probably taken by a wave of smallpox.

In any event, Pizarro and his followers, the greedy conspiratorial bunch grew grew in size as the pile of gold plunder grew, had finished conquering the lands by 1572. Pizarro’s gang decimated the Incan cultural treasures, especially the ones made of gold. They forced Incan Indians to work as slaves in their own gold mines. The story is a horrid one, one of many terrible gold conspiracies involving death and demise. All because gold is wealth and people are greedy.

An Incan Gold Artifact. Artifacts Like These Spawned  Very Violent Gold Conspiracies.

Perhaps a shocking but relevant fact about this gold conspiracy in particular, is that the Incan lands operated primarily on a barter and communal type of economy, and the Indians did not trade gold coins or silver coins amongst themselves as a currency. Gold that was mined in the Incan lands was often worked into sculpture or art and presented to the royalty or to the gods. So unlike gold conspiracies where the conspirators conspire to steal gold that was being used as a currency, this is among the fewer numbering gold conspiracies where the gold to be stolen was being used as a medium for art and religious sacrificial offering.

Gold conspiracies abound because gold is wealth and people are greedy. Today a very small percentage of Americans own physical gold. Is this a conspiracy? Some say yes, some say gold is just too inefficient to use anymore or that gold is a relic or gold is a useless mineral, but time and history prove otherwise again and again.

Inca Gold Sculpture. During The Pizarro Gold Conspiracies, Untold Inca Art Was Stolen.

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