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2500 BCE
EGYPT
Around 2500 BC Ancient Egyptians were making metal rings which some historians think they used as money. -
1900 BCE
CARDS
In this world many peolpe used plastic cards to pay for another thnigs -
1700 BCE
SPAIN
Is a pirate walked into your shop he might try to pay i n pieces of eight.(BIT) is an English term for a coin. -
1685 BCE
CANADIAN COLONIES
Canadian colinies began to use paper money too abd this innovation led to a huge increase in internacional trade -
1 BCE
CHINA:
They started to use if in China. Rather tan excchanging object like lools and weapons, a sistem of using miniature replicas of the objects to be traded were used instead -
The history of money
Historians find it hard to pinpoint the exact moment that the concept of money was invented. Very early times barter and exchange were the main way of trading goods and services. -
LYDIA (Now Western Turkey)
They used the first coins, they were made of discs of electrum.