The History of Cawri Shells

In china, around one thousand b c, agents began using a special type of shell called a cowry shell in exchange for other goods. In north america, indigenous people of the iroquois confederacy and algonquin tribes took shells they found in the ocean and ground them into beads called wampum. Paper money also was first invented by the chinese. Overtime paper money became easier to carry around than heavy metal coins. Imagine if you had to carry 100 dollars worth of coins with you every time you went grocery shopping. The dollar to day can buy less than it would have been 50 years ago. Do you know the names of money in different countries?