004 - Mesopotamian Merchants

Episode 4 September 14, 2014 00:25:45
004 - Mesopotamian Merchants
The Maritime History Podcast
004 - Mesopotamian Merchants

Sep 14 2014 | 00:25:45

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Show Notes

In this episode we'll get to meet two of the more well known merchants from Mesopotamia: Ea-nāşir who lived during the time of the first Babylonian king, Hammurabi, and Lu-Enlilla from the Third Dynasty of Ur. We'll also look at some of the economic factors at play in the world of the Mesopotamian merchants, and we'll see how the earliest law codes had an effect on the trade of the shipping merchants.

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