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Historians find it hard to pintpoint the exact moment that the concept of money wa invited. It is believed that from very early times bater and exchange were the main way of trendiing goods and service.
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around 2500BC Anient Egyptianswere makingmetal rinmgswicg somehistorrians think they udsed as money.
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In 1685 Canadian colionies began to use paper money tooand his innovation led to huge increasein international trade..
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Buçy1100Bc in Chuina, rather than exchanging objects like tools and weapons, a system of using miniature replicas of the objects to be traded were used instead of the objects themselves.
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By 1600 AD Europèans wereusing more and more metal coins.made with metal taken from their colonies overseas.
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If in 1700 a pirate walked into your shop he might try to pay
in pieces of eight,a Spanhis eight real coin was often split up into bits to pay for thing,leaving the bits as change.Bit was an English termfor a small coin and was still used until very recntely, Gor example. the threepenny was only scapped in1971.
