Mesopotamia - Trade

_________ made it possible for Mesopotamia to trade with other
communities and cultures.

• trade
• surpluses from farming
• Fertile Crescent
• Tall plants

Mesopotamians often traded for resources they needed to build structures, such as timber and _______.

• stucco
• stones
• crops
• boats

Mesopotamian merchants traded one good or service for another. Sometimes they needed to measure out their goods. Their trade was called _________.

• Cheating
• free trade
• bartering
• Walmart shopping

Traders needed to travel by donkey, carts, foot, or by boat. These were all forms of ___________.

• technology
• transportation
• trade
• merchants

Mesopotamia means "land between two rivers."  Mesopotamia lies between the
_____ and _____ Rivers.

• Mississippi, Arkansas
• Amazon,  Nile
• Tigris, Euphrates
• Tiger, You Afraid Tees

Trade helped to change the lives of people in Mesopotamia.  One major way it changed their lives was to ___________.

• create the first system of writing
• build the pyramids
• invent the first motor
• make everyone wealthy