History of the United States I / Unit 2 USH1 0180 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Commodification
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The idea
Commodification turned items previously used for ritual purposes into European commodities with monetary exchange value.
In practice
Chicha, corn beer, which the Inca drank only ritually before the Spanish arrived, and then bought and traded.
Where people slip
The anchor says this recast native economies and spurred the process of early commercial capitalism.
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