Editing Trade (section)

==== Mesoamerica ====
[[File:Dinero azada de Mexico (siglos XIV-XV).jpg|thumb|''Tajadero'' or [[axe-monies|axe money]] used as currency in [[Mesoamerica]]. It had a fixed worth of 8,000 [[Theobroma cacao|cacao]] seeds, which were also used as currency.<ref>{{cite web |title=Aztec Hoe Money |url=http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_835166 |website=National Museum of American History |access-date=6 October 2018 |archive-date=6 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006235607/http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_835166 |url-status=live }}</ref>]]

The emergence of exchange networks in the Pre-Columbian societies of and near to Mexico are known to have occurred within recent years before and after 1500 BCE.<ref>K. G. Hirth. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/279629 American Antiquity Vol. 43, No. 1 (Jan., 1978), pp. 35–45]. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161005113314/http://www.jstor.org/stable/279629|date=2016-10-05}}. Retrieved 2012-06-28.</ref>

Trade networks reached north to [[Oasisamerica]]. There is evidence of established maritime trade with the cultures of northwestern South America and the Caribbean.