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Egyptian shoppers brought homemade items such as mats, cloth, cakes and bread to barter for the supplies they needed. For example, a woman with a duck could barter her duck for a necklace. Many of these exchanges were based on an Egyptian unit of measurement called the deben. Goods were placed on one side of a scale and metal debens were added to the other side until both sides balanced. This weighing process helped keep trading fair, so a debens worth of dates could be traded for a debens worth of wheat. -iknowthat .com "life in ancient Egypt"

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Dinovan

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