We are all used to the idea that money is an inalienableelement in the life of every person, that everything in the world has its price, and in order to get something, you must first have the value of this "something" in money equivalent. But not everyone of us thought about what the story of the appearance of money is, after all, not immediately people came up with such a convenient opportunity to acquire what is needed.
Ancient history of the appearance of money
До момента появления денег между большинством the states that existed at that time successfully used barter (mutual benefit - "you to me, I to you"), but over time people began to understand that different goods have different values, to exchange, for example, a clay jug for bread is extremely unprofitable. And it was not so easy, for example, for the milkmaid to exchange his milk for fish, because the fisherman did not care about the milk, he needed bread, and the baker, in turn, needed wheat. And so while the dairy walks around this whole circle, he did not even need the fish.
Then, gradually in different countries began to introducecertain items as money. For example, most of the tribes of the Indians used pearls or shells, other peoples - animal skins, furs or cattle, and later, in the time of Great Russia, the money was considered to be bars of salt, for example, in Ethiopia. The shells of Kauri were also generally accepted monetary value in some countries: in Africa, Thailand, India. And only after all this, people began to introduce metals as money. Thus began the modern history of the appearance of money.
The course of monetary development
First, in most countries as a monetaryunits were used ingots of copper, silver and other metals with different weighted estimates. Gold bars were used only in a few small states (Libya, Pakistan), and other countries that officially declared gold bullion as a monetary unit, prepared it from the alloy of copper, gold and silver, but at first glance it was difficult to distinguish it from real gold, because copper gave a natural yellow color. Therefore, we can say that these states were engaged in the falsification of the product.
Then, already in the seventh century BC, they beganto introduce coins from metal. Accordingly, the greatest value of them had gold coins, followed by silver, well, copper - the most usual and widely used. They called them standards and stators. They were similar in appearance to ordinary beans.
Where did the ruble come from?
Metal money in the history of Russia appeared much later - at the end of the ninth century. Silver bars began to be cut into several approximately equal parts. So there was a name - a ruble.
How the first paper money appeared
In China, money had a very unusual design -round and flat coins with a square hole in the middle. It was necessary for convenience - they stringed on a string and hung around the neck. But over time people realized that the so-called "necklace" - a heavy burden, and began to take coins against receipt - a written commitment that allowed them to take them back at any time and use them. Accordingly, over time, lenders and banks have become a familiar phenomenon, and receipts have become popular and often used among people. So in 910, China created the first paper money. The bark of the mulberry tree served as the basis for the paper.
In Russia, the story of the appearance of money from paper began only in 1769, when Catherine II brought this idea to the country. But the development of paper money in our country has received rapid development.
Now all are stronger every year are replacedfrom the constant use of coins (kopecks are almost nowhere used anywhere, and if they did, they are only tenfold), they are replaced by paper money (not so long ago they introduced a banknote with a face value of five thousand rubles).
