History of Money

By JonCorera
  • 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.