Sentences with 'barter'
Example sentences and phrases with the word barter and other words derived from it.
• « Europe was largely a barter economy, while the Muslim world was a market economy based on currency, with Sharia law providing a sophisticated legal framework for commercial transactions. Especially when Byzantium declined, Muslim kingdoms remained at the forefront of scholarship, trade and military power. »
• « The early Middle Ages, from around 500 to 800 CE, functioned largely on the basis of subsistence agriculture and a barter economy. »
• « Also, the relative stability allowed smaller kingdoms to mint their own coins, and within a century or so (c. 1000 - 1100) much of Europe became a cash economy rather than a barter economy. This gave peasants an additional incentive to farm as much as possible. »
• « That colony soon became the centre of New France, and its trade "harvest" consisted of furs obtained through barter with Native American groups or taken by French trappers. »