Text Timeline
9000 - 6000BC - Cattle: The domestication of cattle and the introduction of crop cultivation led firstly to livestock and later grain being used as money in many different areas of the world.
3100 BC - Writing is invented in Mesopotamia.
3000 - 2000 BC - Banking is developed in Babylonia to store grain, tools, precious metals etc.
2575 BC - The Great Pyramid at Giza is built. Slavery was used as a form of exchange and barter
1200BC - People began to exchange objects with an agreed symbolic value such as cowrie shells. These were widely used in China, India, Thailand and West Africa.
640 BC - The earliest coins are believed to have been made in Lydia.
480 BC - 255 BC - Chinese Knife Money of the State of Ming.
118 BC - Leather money made from large pieces of deerskin is issued in china.
618 BC - 841 BC - Chinese Cash of the Tang Dynasty.
300 AD - 720 AD - Silver Karshapana from India.
1023 AD - China forms a government agency to print paper money.
1066 BC - 1087 BC - Norman Penny from York, England.
1086 AD - The Doomsday book is compiled providing details of the wealth od England.
1107 AD - China starts to print money in 3 colours to prevent forgery.
1502 AD - First reported slaves traded in Western Hemisphere.
1516 AD - 1526 AD - Silver Thaler from Bohemia.
1799 AD - 1813 AD - Holey Dollar from Australia.
1802 AD - 1 Guinea Banknote, Birmingham Bank.
1807 AD - British Parliament bans the Atlantic slave trade.
1830 - 1843 AD - 10 Ryo plate coin from Japan.
1930 AD - Rafia Cloth Currency, Belgian Congo.
1935 AD - One Dollar Note, Hong Kong.
1950 AD - 'The Diners Club' was the first charge card that could be used in multiple establishments.
1998 AD - Credit Card from Great Britain.
1999 AD - 11 countries in western Europe adopt a common currency - the euro.
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