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Basically the same thing we do. The scale was much different. Money is the means by which people aquire things which they haven't the resources to obtain by conventional means. For example, before money people lived in a very small world. So small that all needs were met by Natural Resources at hand. Once the world began to open up, through travel and trade people were exposed to items not available witin their "world". Travel was dangerous and not commonplace so the simple answer was to provide others with those resources to which you had access, and they didn't. The next simplification was to remove subjective resources and replace them with a product valuable everywhere. Gold, Silver, Copper etc.
Money is money. In the past when you could buy a candy bar or coke for .5 cents, the average person was only making $4,500 per year. So that 5 cents was equal to .38 cents in todays money. It may appear that things were cheaper back then and some things for sure were but some things were also far more expensive. Any electronic item was very expensive in the past. When you adjust the prices of items in the past to the price today and figure in inflation not much has changed. Even the price of gasoline which was around 30 cents in 1962 would be $2.31 in todays money. But a color TV in 1962 sold for $400 which is $3,079 in 2013 money. Overall things were cheaper at that time but life was slower and there were far less consumers.
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Is galileo's telescope still in use now in days?
Yes it is still in use nowadays by many people... I'm pretty sure.
How did the San people find food and water and what did they use to store it?
The San people found food and water after days of searching for a reservoir and container, and after finding it, the created little abodes and huts that worked as storage facilities.
How did they live in the olden days?
Different people throughout history have had very different lives. The one of the most important things to remember is that people have only been able to use electricity for a couple of hundred years, but humans have been around for thousands of years. So for most of that time there was no TV, no internet, no lights. Life was much harder for people in the past. They had to get up as soon as the sun came up and go to work (that included a lot of children - before school was compulsory) and they would work until the sun went down (because they didn't have electric lights). But there are lots of differences between the way different people lived - cave men lived in caves, but Victorians lived in houses, and the Romans even had underfloor heating!!
Which argument was used by progressive era reformers to support the use of a graduated income tax?
people who earn more money should pay taxes at higher rates
What can local governments do if they want to use federal money for a special project?
Simply still their money.
What did they use insted of money in the olden days in south Africa?
cowrie
How did people use to communicate in the olden days?
By writing letters
What did the olden days people use before penny?
there was barter system
How did Braille come into use?
Braille came into use by the blind people of the olden days.
What did they use in the olden days to wash there clothes?
what did thety wash their clothes with back in the olden days
How did people cross rivers in the olden days?
they use to cross the river in cannoe or in ferry
What did people use to cook in the olden days?
Coal stoves, Wood stoves, Wood fires.
What did people use for packaging food in the olden days?
flax bark paper animal skin
How people use to calculate time in olden days?
Through sundials,water devices etc
What did people use to ride back in the olden days?
They rode horses, carriages, and the wind. They as well walked!
What transport did they use in the olden days?
Horse and buggy
Did people in the olden days use baking soda instead of toothpaste?
yes my mum has some, hope i helped!! ;)
