p1ch2economics

Name:Rusell Todd

 * **Theme** || **How does this theme apply to your civilization?** ||
 * Agricultural and pastoral production || * Agriculture started the basis for ecomomy in this empire
 * Raised sheep and goats as their livestock to sell as food ||
 * Trade and Commerce || * The wheel and ship building created a more interconnected world amoung the Mesopotamians and the rest of the world
 * Many trade routes stretched from all parts of the empire like the silk road to China because the civilization was in the middle of the old world ||
 * Labor Systems || * Many farmers had slaves work for them to grow food
 * Sometimes, the mother and children would make things like textiles and send them to their father and he would sell them in a market place somewhere else in the empire ||
 * Industrialization || * Products made were textiles and many metallurgy products created from bronze or iron ||
 * Capitalism and socialism || * It was a capitalist society because there were both the rich and the poor people of the soceity
 * Cuneiform shows records of taxes people had to pay for the leaders way back then ||