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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.

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