Local babylonian merchants traveled by foot, selling goods to people in local villages. what types of goods did these merchants trade and why?

As Mesopotamian trade developed, merchants even set up trade emporiums in other regions and cities.

They traded Grains, Meat , and Fish. They traded these goods because they did not have many natural resources so they had to trade with neighboring resources in order to have everything they needed to live.

The three steps before modern english were indo-european, germanic, and old english. as peoples moved around the eurasian continent, their languages changed. throughout the ages, the languages became more specialized. as english has many germanic influences, it is easy to see how this was one of the forebears. also, old english was one of the main ancestors of the modern language, spoken in the 5th through about the 13th centuries.