Money

THE HISTORY OF MONEY

By Unai Gonzalez
  • 2500 BCE

    THE FIST COINS MADE

    THE FIST COINS MADE
    Ancient Egyptians were makin metal rings which some historians think they used as money.
  • 1700 BCE

    Pirates

    If in the 1700 personar a pirate worked into your shop he might try to pay in pieces of eight.
  • 1685 BCE

    CANADIANS

    In 1685 Canadian began to use paper money too and this inovation led to a huge increase in the internacional trade
  • 1600 BCE

    Europeans

    By 1600 AD Europeans were using more and more metal coins, made with the metal taken from their colonies overseal.
  • 1100 BCE

    CHINA

    Rather than exchanging objects like tools and weapons
  • Period: 700 BCE to 600 BCE

    LYDIA

    It seems that over time these may have transformed into easier to handle discs of metal beacause in Lydia between 700 and 600BC the first coins, as we would recognice them, were made.

  • Nowadays

    In the modern world many people use plactis cards called debit cards to pay for things, people also use money they do not even have yet by paying with credics cards.