Apparently the Aztecs where still using cocoa beans and other crops before 1500s
>>18665189What dp you mean by Southern Native Americans? Andeans had metal currency, though mostly used for foreign commerce.Regardless, why would you need a non-perishable currency? Perishable units of currency solve several problems coins and the like have Re: Inflation, Wealth Hoarding.
>>18665189The Aztecs lived in North America retard
>>18665204Iirc cultures in western Mexico may have used Axe-Money currency.
>>18665207My bad no need to be rude>>18665216That was after the 1500s
>>18665204>Andeans had metal currencyOnly a few coastal areas and they were the exception not the rule.>Regardless, why would you need a non-perishable currency? Because you want to accumulate capital
>>18665189Because it worked for them and there was evidently never any social or economic factor that could lead them to think otherwise
too busy with cannibalism and human sacrifice
>>18665189>>18665189If only moors ferried native bvlls to breed spanish women
>>18665189Because they were based and knew money cannot stagnate and must always be in circulation to pump the economy
>>18665649Famously money didn't circulate in places where they used metal currencies
>>18665519Stroke a nerve?
They used cocoa beans, gold-tipped quills, and cotton textiles as currency>Why didn't they develop durable currencies?They didn't see a need to. Goods are easily replaced in their environment
>>18666595>They didn't see a need to.Translation they didn't have a market economy
>>18665484>he believes 500 year old spanish propaganda. What a dummy lol.
>>18666595pretty much, their currency was stable and valued heavily. Even now chocolate is a very valued crop and sells strong>literally last year some europeans stole several tons of kit kats. Chocolate is still valuable.
>>18666595>They didn't see a need toConsidering that they ended up using copper axe heads I beg to disagree >their currency was stable and valued heavily.Source?
