Origins
Vocabulary
Currency
Economy
100

What ancient people used small clay pieces to keep track of financial deals?

The people of ancient Sumer (Sumerians)

100

What word describes the act of making fake money?

Counterfeiting

100

Which country has this bill?

A. Afghanistan

B. Jamaica

C. Abu Dhabi

D.Zimbabwe 

100

What word describes the increase in cost of buying things?

Inflation

200

What did the ancient Chinese use to make payments?

Cowrie shells

200

The payment of money for services or goods is sometimes called this.

A transaction

200

How many cents are there in a dollar?

100

200

What do you call raw materials that are bought, sold or traded on world markets? 

Commodities

300

About 2,700 years ago, the Lydians started to use what metal to make coins?

Gold

300

What do you call the result of blending of two or more metals together?

An alloy

300

Whose face is now on the 1,000yen bill?

Shibasaburo Kitasato


300

When two or more countries agree to import and export goods with no trade barriers.

Free trade

400

What Greek city introduced banks to trade foreign money?

Corinth

400

What does ATM stand for?

Automatic Teller Machine

400

This cryptocurrency started in 2009.

                      

Bitcoin

400

This is a plan that helps a person, company or government calculate how much they will earn and spend over a period of time.

A budget

500

By the 1700s, the world shifted from using coins to what kind of money?

Paper money or banknotes

500

What do you call a secure place where valuable things like gold bars are stored?

A vault

500

What currency do people use in the UK?

The pound 

500

This phrase describes the situation in Japan from 1986 to 1991 when prices rose very quickly and then crashed in 1992.

Bubble economy