The History of Money
Complete the timeline below describing the early history of money
9000 BC in the first form of money was animals like cattle, sheep and camels.
1200 BC Around the Pacific and Indian Oceans in China and parts of Africa, cowrie shells were used from 1200 BC.
1000 BC the Chinese were the first to use metal in their money.
500 BC in Lydia which is now part of the turkey , coins were made with a mixture of gold and silver they were stamped at the back to show they were not fake
806 AD china started making paper money as there was a shortage of gold and copper`
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