The Inca traded squash, sweet potatoes, and fruits like pineapples and papaya.
The lower valleys provided sweet potatoes, maize, manioc, squash, beans, chili peppers, peanuts, and cotton.
The hills above produced white potatoes, a cereal grain called Quinta, coca, medicine, feathers, and animal skins.
The highlanders specialized in manufacture and crafts, including gold working.
Gold was their favorite thing to trade.Also the Inca did not when they not trade but when they did they traded within their community
People knew and were confident that the items being exchanged would hold/keep their value as time went on. They did not use money because they were not sure that it would hold its value, and thats why the barter system was used by backcountry people.
The Online Barter Network can be found at imsbarter dot com. This is probably the largest bartering website. You can barter with people on Craiglist or Kijiji. Other potential websites would be CareToTrade and Trashbank.
Trading goods or services without cash is known as bartering. For example, "Farmers would barter eggs for milk with their neighbors." When cash transactions are impractical or undesirable, some communities still use this method, which was popular in antiquity.
they had a barter system. they didn't have money, just trade goods,
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The Sapa Inca hled absolute power. Claiming to be divine, the son of the sun itslef, he was also the empire's religious leader. The Sapa Inca claimed power over all land, herds, mines, and people of his empire. Thus, all people had no personal property, so there was little demand for items for barter or sale.
Trading goods or services without cash is known as bartering. For example, "Farmers would barter eggs for milk with their neighbors." When cash transactions are impractical or undesirable, some communities still use this method, which was popular in antiquity.
People knew and were confident that the items being exchanged would hold/keep their value as time went on. They did not use money because they were not sure that it would hold its value, and thats why the barter system was used by backcountry people.
They would call themselves Inca's
The Online Barter Network can be found at imsbarter dot com. This is probably the largest bartering website. You can barter with people on Craiglist or Kijiji. Other potential websites would be CareToTrade and Trashbank.
desperation of which one would get a bad deal
The Inca people sacrificed young children by cutting their hearts out.
the Inca leader
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The Spanish were greedy for gold. Each of the men were given 45 pounds of gold and 90 pounds of silver. The Inca used gold for religious artifacts. The Inca had no money or currency. They bought what they needed by barter.
they had a barter system. they didn't have money, just trade goods,
Sapa inca