1: Nearly every day, you and I handle small coins and bank-notes. We need them for food and clothing When we want to buy something, we always have to pay for it with money. But what would we have done when there were no metal coins and Paper notes?

 

2: Many thousands of years ago, men did not have any money. The first men lived in caves. They   ate   roots and berries. Sometimes they caught small animals. Often they were hungry and cold.

 

3: Time moved on and men learned to make tools out of stone. Now they were able to catch larger animals. They started to use animal skins to keep warm. They also learned to grow plants. For their way of life did not need any money.

 

4:But soon men found that they liked one kind of word better than another. Some men wanted to hund. Others had more fun growing things. Many liked to cut weapons needed tools and weapons. So they started to trade with each other. For money, they used the skins of animals and the weapons they made of stone.

5: More people began raising cattle and farming. Men  begen using cattle as goods with which to trade. But they soon  found that this  way of trading was not good. If a farmer wanted to get a few tools he had to pay for them with a calf. Since the calf was worth more than the tools, the farmer might have to buy things he did not need. There was no way to give change back. Then the farmer was not happy.