Mesopotamian American Trade
TRADE AND TRADERS OF MESOPOTAMIAN UR
Mesopotamia extended north along the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers and consisted of two cultures: Sumerian in the south and Akkadian to the north, each with its own language, but shared a lifestyle based upon farming and the raising of sheep and goats.
The Ur III dynasty became capital the Summer and Akkad in the late third millennium
He dug new irrigation canals and dredged old ones to increase agricultural activity and to promote the international trade.
For the next 100 years the conquered provinces were required to pay taxes (paid in the form the cattle to the Ur III state.
Summer lacked natural resources so they imported in trade for local goods grown.
These merchants sent copper in from Mangan, precious …show more content…
Traders traveling to the north and west sent merchandise by river boats from Ur up the
Euphrates River, trough Mari and on to Emar and transferred their goods to donkey and drove caravans west to Ebla and then on to Ugarit on the Mediterranean Sea or south of
Qatna.
Silver and grain were the mediums of exchange during the fourth to second millennium, the first one was used to buy household and commodities and to make loans whereas grain most often barley was used to buy and sell, loan at interest or exchange for other commodities. UR MERCHANTS
The merchants of the Ur III period were considered by the State as a source and desired goods which could be tricky to obtain and a source of liquid capital when the palace needed to get profits for that reason it is believed that they were agents of the state.
TRADE FROM TILMUN DURING THE REIGN OF KING RIM SIN
Ea-nasir was a merchant who acted as a private trader and imported copper during the Rim-Sin`s reign.
Ea-nasir bought the copper in Tilmun and sent all it to the palace at Ur, but
Mesopotamia extended north along the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers and consisted of two cultures: Sumerian in the south and Akkadian to the north, each with its own language, but shared a lifestyle based upon farming and the raising of sheep and goats.
The Ur III dynasty became capital the Summer and Akkad in the late third millennium
He dug new irrigation canals and dredged old ones to increase agricultural activity and to promote the international trade.
For the next 100 years the conquered provinces were required to pay taxes (paid in the form the cattle to the Ur III state.
Summer lacked natural resources so they imported in trade for local goods grown.
These merchants sent copper in from Mangan, precious …show more content…
Traders traveling to the north and west sent merchandise by river boats from Ur up the
Euphrates River, trough Mari and on to Emar and transferred their goods to donkey and drove caravans west to Ebla and then on to Ugarit on the Mediterranean Sea or south of
Qatna.
Silver and grain were the mediums of exchange during the fourth to second millennium, the first one was used to buy household and commodities and to make loans whereas grain most often barley was used to buy and sell, loan at interest or exchange for other commodities. UR MERCHANTS
The merchants of the Ur III period were considered by the State as a source and desired goods which could be tricky to obtain and a source of liquid capital when the palace needed to get profits for that reason it is believed that they were agents of the state.
TRADE FROM TILMUN DURING THE REIGN OF KING RIM SIN
Ea-nasir was a merchant who acted as a private trader and imported copper during the Rim-Sin`s reign.
Ea-nasir bought the copper in Tilmun and sent all it to the palace at Ur, but