Usborne for Beginners - Not Quite Money

When was the oldest surviving evidence of people using money to trade goods?

• 5,000 years ago

• 7,000 years ago

• 9,000 years ago

• 11,000 years ago

Batering only works if ____ people have what the other ​wants.

What did people do to make bartering work?

• They used oysters to barter.

• They bartered with each other until they found something else to trade with.

• They used grain to barter for everything.

• They found another person who had a cow.

The ____ people traded, the ____ they learned about deals other people made.

• a. less, more

• b. more, less

• c. more, more

• d. none of the above.

What is an I.O.U?

• a. It's a kind of food.

• b. It's a promise that people will give what they have to barter to the other when it's ready.

• b. It's a thing to barter.

• d. It's a currency.

Was the word "money" used 9,000 years ago?

• Yes.

• No.

What did Kesed have as a medium of exchange between Nasha's grain and Ibbi's cow?

• chickens

• cows

• grain

• deer skins

A "unit of account" was what people used to measure how much things were worth.

• Yes.

• No.

What did people need to accept a I.O.U promise?

• grain

• money

• trust

• many cows

What did Mesopotamians use to measure small sums of "money"?

• a grain called barley

• silver

• cows

• pigs