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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 3173055, member: 26302&quot;]Not sure that is true. I heard all copper used by natives have an extremely high percentage of arsenic, since their method of smelting involved arsenic. It was actually an extensive trade route, with the copper originating in Ecuador, being made specifically for export in return for a variety of goods the Incans prized.</p><p><br /></p><p>Either way does not explain why natives would have learned from the Spanish copper hoes, when such coinage was unknown to the Spanish. However, copper hoes and other instruments made in representative fashion was invented independently around the world at various times. Seems a much stronger argument that native americans were evolving proto currency like numerous other cultures have done, instead of having to be &quot;taught&quot; it by Spanish who frankly were ignorant of the fact.</p><p><br /></p><p>Could technology brought by the Spanish allowed a great increase in production? Of course, but I am still convinced the proto currency evolution started with the native americans.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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