Visiting a Village (Historic Communities)
Taken from Chapter 7: The General Store The people in early villages used very little money.  They traded goods and services for  other goods and services.  If they had extra grain, they exchanged it for planks from the  sawmill or eggs from another farm.  People who were skilled in making things traded the  products they made for goods and services offered by others.  This type of trading was  called the barter system.