Cultural Exchange
When traders shared ideas, stories, and inventions, this kind of exchange happened.
What is cultural exchange?
Traders had to cross these natural obstacles, making travel dangerous.
What are mountains, deserts, and rivers?
As people began living in these, trade and sharing ideas became easier.
What are cities?
This is what it's called when people learn different jobs like farming or tool-making.
What is specialization?
In the barter system, people traded goods and services instead of using this.
What is money?
Cultural exchange helped civilizations become more of this.
What is advanced or smarter?
If trade didn’t work, some civilizations did this to get resources.
What is go to war?
Ancient Mesopotamia grew stronger and expanded its influence because of this.
What is trade?
Specialization led to this economic activity because people couldn’t do everything themselves.
What is trade?
One problem with the barter system was that it was hard to find someone who needed this.
What is what you had to offer?
Traders shared these types of things besides goods.
What are ideas, stories, and inventions?
Traders had to carry enough of these two things for themselves and their animals.
What are food and water?
Cities became centers for these three things.
What are learning, creativity, and invention?
Specialization made people depend on each other because no one could do this.
What is everything on their own?
A farmer might trade wheat for this item from someone in the mountains.
What is wood?
Cultural exchange helped people learn about farming, tools, writing, and this.
What is religion?
One danger traders faced on the road was this.
What is being robbed?
In cities, people could easily exchange these three types of items.
What are food, tools, and art?
A person who made tools or built homes had this kind of job.
What is a specialized job or skilled job?
The barter system worked best when both people had this.
What is something the other person wanted?
Even when civilizations went to war, this still happened.
What is cultural exchange?
Some civilizations started wars to get these.
What are resources?
Even today, cities are places where people do these two things.
What are trade and share cultures?
Specialization helped civilizations grow by encouraging this kind of exchange.
What is trade or cultural exchange?
One reason the barter system became difficult was because of this challenge.
What is finding the right person to trade with?