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Mesopotamia: Trade Routes and Transportation
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    For the Sumerians, the Tigris River served as an important early trade route. See how they traveled by river and overland to trade with India and Egypt. Then examine how technological advances, such as the cart, facilitated transporting people and goods


  The Function of Trading

  Nippur as a Trading Center

  Trade Routes over Water

  The Overland Route

  Trade between Different Cultures