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__**Early Money**__ In the early history of money, money wasn't actually used. You have to think of money as something that you offer or recieve for the purchase or sales or goods. The money that was first use were objects like cattle, salt, grain, tobacco, whiskey and stones, just to name a few.

In Southern Africa shells have been used since prehistoric times. This kind of curency was used by the Native Americans and they called it a wampum. In the 1600s it was the most commonly used currency in North America. Then the Massachusetts Bay Colony declared wampum legal tender (okay to use as money).

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