Trading
Imports
Wool
Jewelery
Wine
Linen
Papyrus
Exports
Textiles
Pottery
Grains
Leather goods
Oil
Bibliographies
Ancient Worlds textbook: By Arnold Toutant and Susan Doyle
Transportation
Ships with oars and paddles
Transportation by foot
Wheel (chariots)
Donkey
Tigris and Euphrates rivers
Wagons
Carts
Trading with other civilizations
Babylonians
Indians
Egyptians
Sumerians
Assyrians
Definitions
Mesopotamia was the first civilizations to invent a sail boat. They used sailboats for transportation so they could trade without having to walk miles and miles.
The first form of writing was from the Sumerians. They traded their writing skills, (gave them lessons on how to write), for a living.
Mesopotamian's invented the wheel in approximately 3500 BC. They then used chariots, using the wheel, to go to other cities and trade.
Barter system
Exchanging services and goods for
other services and goods in return
Introduced by Mesopotamian tribes
Used instead of money
Developed writing (cuneiform) to keep
track of buying and selling