It's hard to imagine what things were like before there was money, but such a time did exist. During these times people exchanged goods using the barter system. The word barter means to trade. People using the barter system traded things instead of buying and selling them. So if you were a rice farmer, you would trade your rice with many people to get all the things that you wanted or needed. Unfortunately, the people from whom you needed things might not want your rice. Isn't it nice to just go to the store and buy candy instead of having to trade rice for it?



Identify the main idea of the passage.


Present day, we pay for goods using money.

People bartered before they used money.

Barter means to trade.

People traded instead of buying and selling.

By the way its more than 1 correct answer.