Season One

Before coins and formal markets, people built systems of exchange from need, trust and shared value. Season One explores the origins of barter and the problems that gradually pushed humanity toward money.

Episodes

Episode 1 — The Beginning of Need

Episode 2 — The Search for a New System

Episode 3 — The Beginning of Barter

Episode 4 — Barter

Episode 5 — Can Everything Become Money?

Episode 6 — Barter in the Ancient World

Episode 7 — What People Valued in Exchange

Episode 8 — Salt, Grain and Animals

Episode 9 — The Birth of the Marketplace

Episode 10 — The Limits of Barter