Checks and Balances;
Or,
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Checks
(But Were Afraid to Ask)
INDEX
Ancestral Checks Emerge from the Primordial Ooze
Why You Should Bother With Checks
What to Consider Before Whipping Out That Checkbook
Where Does Your Little Check Go When It Leaves Home?
A Checkless Society? Pull The Other One, Why Don't You?
What to Look for in Check Security, If That's Your Thing
Checks and Balances
One day thousands of years ago, some enterprising caveman saw a shiny rock, thought it looked really cool, and wondered if someone might be willing to trade some meat for it. It turned out they would, and from that transaction money was born.
Since then people have experimented with using just about everything for money, from great big rocks with holes in them to pretty strands of seashells. Eventually, someone looked at that shiny rock again, decided it would work better flattened and with someone's picture on it, and after a little experimentation coins were invented. Models in gold, silver, copper, and brass followed, and were valued at various amounts based on the perceived value of their constituent metals. Although they didn't invent coins themselves, the Romans were great at adapting neat inventions, and spread coinage far and wide over their entire empire. Gardeners in England, Europe, and the Middle East are still unearthing Roman coins to this day.
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