History of Trade

Read the following sentence then answer the question :

Long ago, people used to exchange something for something else.

This is known as trade .

People of different civilizations traded things they have plenty of for things that they don't have enough of.

This human activity has been a part of the development of ancient civilizations .

What do we mean by ( Trade ) ?

• buy

• sell

• exchange

• travel

Read the following sentence then answer the question :

Long ago, people used to exchange something for something else.

This is known as trade .

People of different civilizations traded things they have plenty of for things that they don't have enough of.

This human activity has been a part of the development of ancient civilizations .

What's the importance of trade according to the information of the paragraph ?

• People got their needs

• It was an important part of the development of the civilizations

• People started to know and visit each other

• People gave the things they had plenty of

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When people started to grow crops and domesticate animals, they knew bartering for the first time .

They started to use camels, horses and donkeys as means of transportation in addition to ships and caravans that carried goods , animals and products from one place to another .

When did people started bartering ?

( Choose two answers )

• When they started to build ships

• When they started to grow crops

• When they started to travel to new places

• When they started to domesticate animals

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When people started to grow crops and domesticate animals, they knew bartering for the first time .

They started to use camels, horses and donkeys as means of transportation in addition to ships and caravans that carried goods , animals and products from one place to another .

Why animals were important at that time ?

• To carry goods

• To protect the caravan

• To find food and water

• To build houses

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When people started to grow crops and domesticate animals, they knew bartering for the first time .

They started to use camels, horses and donkeys as means of transportation in addition to ships and caravans that carried goods , animals and products from one place to another .

Which of the following was not used as means of transportation ?

• ships

• horses

• camels

• trains

Read the following paragraph then answer the question related :

When people started to grow crops and domesticate animals, they knew bartering for the first time .

They started to use camels, horses and donkeys as means of transportation in addition to ships and caravans that carried goods , animals and products from one place to another .

According to the information mentioned in this paragraph, what is a caravan and why was it used ?

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Trade and commerce contributed to the rise of ancient civilizations and promoted the exchange if ideas, philosophy and technology at that time .

According to the information mentioned

Which is NOT TRUE about how trade helped the civilizations at that time ?

• It helped to exchange technology

• It helped to exchange ideas

• It promoted wars and problems among the civilizations

• It contributed to the rise of ancient civilizations

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Mesopotamia is the land between the two rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates.

Mesopotamians used to trade grain wool and textiles.

Thousands of stone tablets recorded the imports and exports they called them scribes .

Complete the sentence correctly :

Mesopotamia is the land between two rivers, the Euphrates and ...........................

• Nile

• Tigris

• Euphrates

• Amazon

Read the following paragraph then answer the question related :

Mesopotamia is the land between the two rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates.

Mesopotamians used to trade grain wool and textiles.

Thousands of stone tablets recorded the imports and exports they called them scribes .

Why did the Mesopotamians use the scribes ?

• To record exports and imports

• To record the imports

• To record the exports

• To write history

Read the following paragraph then answer the question related :

Mesopotamia is the land between the two rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates.

Mesopotamians used to trade grain wool and textiles.

Thousands of stone tablets recorded the imports and exports they called them scribes .

What are the scribes ?

• imports

• exports

• goods

• stone tablets