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How to Use Your Arts and Crafts as Currency to Buy What You Need©
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Source: Arlene Wright-Correll
How to Use Your Arts and Crafts as Currency to Buy What You Need© By Arlene Wright-Correll Long before there was cash, barter was civilization’s main currency. Aztec Culture was the follower of the tradition inherited by the Mayas, who a long time before, used chocolate as currency and food Barter is often regarded as an old-fashioned means of exchange that was superseded because money is far more efficient. After all, in a monetary system an apple grower who needs shoes simply has to find a cobbler. In a pure barter system the apple grower would have to find not just any cobbler but one who happened to want apples at that time. Thus in virtually all civilizations, except the Incas, money came to play an important role. Read more
