Collection No. 05 of 24

Economics, trade and money

Markets, money, taxes, trade routes and shipping.

0 subjects · 3 lessons · 2 objects · 5 events

The thread through time

Everything in this drawer at its date. Objects above the line, lessons and events below. Each step to the right is ten times closer to today.

300,000 years ago10,0003,0001,000100nowWriting, invented four timesA clay tablet recording barleyModel granary with scribesTowns and the new lifeHow it ended

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  1. Writing, invented four timesWas writing invented once, or more than once?The long human story · 3400 BC to 200 BC
  2. Towns and the new lifeHow did Roman rule change the way people lived?Roman Britain · AD 47 to about 300
  3. How it endedDid Roman Britain fall, or fade away?Roman Britain · About AD 250 to 500

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