Merchants in Mesopotamia traded, bartered, and sold items for a living.
Merchants usually worked for Kings and Emperors, but rarely traded for themselves.
Merchants traded in coracles, gulf boats, riverboats, rafts and carts. They also traveled on foot and on donkeys.
Merchants traded grains, wood, ivory, precious metals, fish, meat, wool, textiles, pearls, reeds, logs, stone, beer, wine, copper, bricks, carnelian, oil, Lapis lazuli (a glossy rough bluish stone mined.) , and more!
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In Ancient Japan, merchants were at the bottom of the social order. They were considered unimportant although they were actually very important, and merchants were disliked and feared by others. The main purpose of merchants was to sell the goods of artisans, the people in the class above them, and they produced nothing themselves.
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In Mesopotamia merchants would transport many goods. They would make sure workers would please their gods.
they sold money
Merchants were not respected in Ancient China because they were thought as greedy and unproductive people. Locals thought that merchants did not help their country in any way.
Cause they didn't value money. Didn't get to have government jobs because of that.
Poor people's jobs in ancient China were Slaves, money lenders, merchants and traders. Rich peoples jobs were land owners, scholars and poets.
There were four main classes of rank in ancient china, as decided and proposed by the scholars and officials of that time. In order; The Shi - the scholars and officials The Nong - the peasants and farmers The Gong - the artists and craftsmen The Shang - the merchants and traders