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2500 BCE
Anciant Egyptians
Were making metal rings which some historians think they used as money. -
1100 BCE
China
Rather than exchanging objects like tools and weapones, a system of using miniatures replicas of the objects to be traded were used insted of the objects themeselves -
Period: 700 BCE to 600 BCE
Lydia(now Western Turkey)
The first coins, as we would recognise them, were made. -
650 BCE
China
The first paper money was being used. -
Europe
Europeans were using more and more metal coins, mede with metal taken from their colonies overseas. -
Canadian
Canadian colonies began to use paper money too and this innovation led to a huge increase in international trade. -
Pirate
A pirate walked into your shop he might try to pay in pieces of eight.