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=The Story of Money Did you ever wonder why at super markets you couldn’t swap an orange for a cake? Or a Nintendo for a horse? It’s because of money. I mean sure allowance is cool but along time ago there wasn’t such thing as money. They just traded things for things and lived in small groups and tribes. Then later on it became a little confusing. “How many eggs equal a cow?” and “How many cows equal a house?” So they started using different salt and cowrie shells. =

===But once again the people had problems. The salt melted in the rain and the little silver balls (they also used it as money) rolled away. Soon after those times people started using silver bits, which eventually the government turned into coins. === ===Marco Polo went to China and discovered something very odd; the Chinese were using paper money! But for a while Europe refused to use paper money, only because they didn’t trust their government. But finally they agreed and paper money is still used to this day. Read more to find out about how money and trade developed. ===

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