The link above is to a document that shows the unbroken line of the central bankers and the banking fraud from its early days in Babylon, through Egypt, Greece, Rome, Roman Empire, Dark Ages, Middle Ages, 1066 and all that, Age of Discovery, Bank of England, Colonial America, the First Bank of the United States, through the Civil War, 1913 to today!  It is a remarkable historical record presented in a wonderful graphically rich fashion and is well worth the time it takes to read it.