С) Прочитайте текст, ответьте на утверждения true\false\ not stated Have you ever wondered what the world was like before cash, cheques and credit cards? Well, before invention of money, people bought and sold goods through a system known as bartering. This meant that they exchanged goods. One of the first forms of money was actually a type of seashell, the cowry. People in southeast Asia and parts of Africa used cowries from 1500 BC to 200 AD. Money, as we know it today, has a very long history. There are several opinions about who the inventors of coins were. Many experts claim that the Lydians, people who lived in the part of the world that is now Turkey, invented the first coins nearly 3000 years ago. Paper money dates back to ancient China. A shortage of copper made the Chinese start producing money made from paper. The first recorded use of paper money goes back around 1300 years ago. 20) Currently we can only pay with credit cards. 21) The first coins were struck in ancient Lydia, modern-day Turkey, in about the seventh century BC and were made of a mixture of gold and silver called electrum. 22) Before money people used bartered goods as payment. 23) The cowry is a type of seashell. 24) Ancient China was invented cheques around 1300 years ago. 25) The first paper money was made from mulberry tree bark and bamboo.