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[00:07.29]Now, however, imagine a world with no money
[00:15.80]500 years ago, the most powerful society in South America, the Inca Empire, had no real concept of money
[00:25.06]The Incas appreciated the aesthetic qualities of rare metals.
[00:29.49]Gold was the sweat of the sun, silver the tears of the moon
[00:34.01]labour was the unit of value in the Inca Empire, just as it was later supposed to be in a communist society.
[00:44.42]But in 1532, the Incas ran into a man whose hunger for money had led him across an ocean.
[00:51.88](Francisco Pizarro and his fellow Conquistadores had come from Spain to what they called Upper Peru)