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