History of Money from Sandstone to Cyberspace
The book The History of Money examines how the concept of money has evolved over the last 25 centuries from a sociological point of view I will summarize how money has evolved up to present day. In the book The History of Money, Jack Weatherford defines money not as paper or coins that contain a value to a society. Throughout the book, he shows that money can be any thing useful to a society that can be used in exchange for another good, for example, fur in Canada was a large commodity. Throughout The History of Money, social and political factors have affected how money has evolved over time from the kingdom of Lydia to the Holy Roman Empire, from feudal times, to the founding of the new world, to the birth of the dollar. Throughout the history of the world, societies have used various region specific objects that were useful in trade, for example, in the Aztec empire the cacao seed was used in trade and could be construed as that societies’ money Dinkelmeyer 2 system.